| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- All the Resurrections -- The Bottle -- Kupferberger Gold -- Daddy Isn't There -- O Lord, Make No Tarrying -- They Went Away -- Photographs I -- Westward, or All the Deaths of Barbara Wójcik -- Ueberschaer's Tomb -- The Second Cemetery -- Long Live Mikołajczyk! -- Postscript -- The Last Ones -- Don't Touch the Graves -- There Was This Fear -- The Germans are Coming -- Whose Fault -- That Evil Woman -- The Church -- The Manor House -- The Brewery -- The Letter -- Photographs II -- All Miedzianka's Treasures -- The Town is Gone -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Literature |
| 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 |
| SUBJECT |
Miedzianka (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) -- History
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Poland -- History -- Personal narratives
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| Subject |
Poland
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Poland -- Miedzianka (Województwo Dolnośląskie)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bye, Sean Gasper, translator
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| ISBN |
9781632061164 |
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1632061163 |
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