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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Tina Rosenberg

Winner:National Book Award -Nonfiction (1995)
Winner:Pulitzer Prize -General Nonfiction (1996)
As told by MacArthur Fellowship-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg, this "definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms" (David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review) make up the final chapter in the greatest moral drama of our time. "Provocative and serious . . . original and useful".--New York Times Book Review. A National Book Award winner.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Mar 19th, 1996
  • Pages: 464
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 1.00in - 0.75lb
  • EAN: 9780679744993
  • Categories: Eastern Europe - GeneralPolitical Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismRussia - General

About the Author

Tina Rosenberg is a journalist who lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. She now lives in Washington, DC.

Praise for this book

"Tina Rosenberg has traveled around the ruins of a fallen empire and she has returned with astonishing tales of human memory and struggle. The Haunted Land is the best portrait of post-imperial Eastern Europe around."--David Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb

"Brilliant and impassioned... The definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms."--David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review