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Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days

Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearWith a keen eye for the unusual and the ironic, Szablowski takes us from eastern Europe to London, Greece, and Cuba, uncovering the stories of people whose lives haven`t quite caught up with their countries` political turns: the women who take care of Stalin`s childhood home in Georgia; the man who feigned being a healer to escape war crime accusations in Serbia; the villagers who turned their homes into hobbit holes for tourism in Poland.