Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe

by Eva Hoffman

Book Overview

"Indispensable for anyone who wants to seriously come to grips with the experience of Eastern Europe."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140145494
• ISBN13: 9780140145496
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Comments on Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe

As a frequent visitor to Eastern (Central) Europe, I found the book full of insights into those countries,with accurate cultural comments. Worth reading for information or preparation for a trip.

Excellent

I'm preparing to move to Romania, and read this book to give me an idea of the way things were over there a few years ago. I greatly enjoyed this book. It was well written, and thought-provoking. Every now and then the author would lapse into excessive use of "textbook speech", but for the most part I appreciated the way she wrote. I also appreciated the way she used various stories to get her information across. For someone with little to no interest in this area, this would not be a good book to start with. However, I found it very readable, and highly recommend it.

A Good Portrait of Eastern Europe

After studying the politics and history of Eastern Europe extensively as an undergraduate in college, I read this book and found it simply marvelous, for in all the history and political science books yo are given fact upon fact, but until I read this book I didn't know what it was like to actually be there. She vividly portrays the countries of the region from an ordinary person's perspective, the sights, the sounds, the feeling in the air of these countries. It can be read as an introduction to Eastern Europe, the avid student, or even the educated expert. It can also be enjoyable as simply leisure reading.