History of a disappearance : the story of a forgotten Polish town /

History of a disappearance : the story of a forgotten Polish town /

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Author / Creator:	Springer, Filip, 1982- author.
Uniform title:	Miedzianka. English
Edition:	First Restless Books paperback edition.
Imprint:	Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2017. ©2017
Description:	318 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Miedzianka (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) -- History. Poland -- History -- Personal narratives. Poland. Poland -- Miedzianka (Województwo Dolnośląskie) History. Personal narratives.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039117

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Other authors / contributors:	Bye, Sean Gasper, translator.
ISBN:	1632061155 9781632061157
Notes:	"First published as 'Miedzianka : historia znikania' by Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2011"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-318). Translated from the Polish.
Summary:	Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc's uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter, and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher.

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