Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days

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Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szablowski
English | March 3rd, 2018 | ASIN: B076Z22XFF, ISBN: 0143129740 | 258 pages | EPUB | 1.96 MB
'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.' Tim Flannery

I used to bottle-feed my father's two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong-the baby drank from the bear's bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the collective farm, I knew one thing: if I wanted to go on living, I had to find a bear.

A brilliant, funny and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries who are nostalgic for how they used to live.

For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, after the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But, even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.

In the tradition of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szablowski tells remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria's dancing bears, are now free but long for when they were not. He describes hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with the guides at the Stalin Museum, and sleeping in London's Victoria Station alongside a homeless Polish woman. Dancing Bears is a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval, and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule.

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