Bibliograph

A chip shop in Poznań, my unlikely year in Poland, Ben Aitken

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A chip shop in Poznań, my unlikely year in Poland, Ben Aitken

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A chip shop in Poznań

Oclc number

1083140076

Responsibility statement

Ben Aitken

Sub title

my unlikely year in Poland

Summary

Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving. He booked the cheapest flight he could find, to a place he had never heard of - Poznan. This candid, funny and off-beat book is the account of his year in Poland, as an unlikely immigrant. Between peeling potatoes and boning fish, Ben spent time on the road travelling the country. He missed the bus to Auschwitz; stayed with a dozen nuns near Krakow; was offered a job by a Eurosceptic farmer and went to Gdansk to learn how Solidarity rose and communism fell. This is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country, challenging stereotypes that Poland is a grey, ex-soviet land, and revealing a diverse country, rightfully proud of its colourful identity

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