The Native's Return
An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country
LAUGHING IN THE JUNGLE was a dark horse success. This book has been selected by the Book of the Month for February, which should give it an impetus and a certain amount of publicity. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Adamic used it to revisit his home, in Jugoslavia, and to give us, in this book, a picture of that strangely composite country today. There the old world and the new meet and blend; feudal mediaevalism lives next door to a modern boom city; peasantry in the civilization of another century is ruled by a dictator and high handed. Jugoslavic replica of Capone. Nationalities with nothing in common, customs that have different roots…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8371-7965-0
- EAN: 9780837179650
- Produktnummer: 4244563
- Verlag: Greenwood Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1975
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.7 cm 665 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 665
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