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There's an Egg in My Soup: An Irish Man in Poland
Tom Galvin
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Description for There's an Egg in My Soup: An Irish Man in Poland
Paperback. An interesting and amusing account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Five years in the Polish wilderness.
Five years in the Polish wilderness.
Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – this is Poland in the mid-1990s, where Tom Galvin innocently went as a trainee teacher.
Without a word of Polish, he is plunged into a strange and rapidly changing culture, as the country shakes off its troubled and complex past and faces the challenges of being a part of modern Europe.
Tom spent five years dealing with long and freezing winters, lack of good food, loneliness and hardship, as he discovered the misery as well as the ... Read more
An interesting and amusing account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
O'Brien Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781847170484
SKU
KKD0003625
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tom Galvin
TOM GALVIN went to Poland in 1994 to live and teach in a Polish state school for five years. He later worked as a journalist for The Warsaw Voice and Radio Polonia in Warsaw. He now works for the Evening Herald, on the Polski Herald supplement and as books editor. He has written two books for the tourist market The ... Read more
Reviews for There's an Egg in My Soup: An Irish Man in Poland
'Masterly description . . . a gentle, engaging read'
The Irish Times
The Irish Times
'Joyous account of our hero floundering . . . he is winningly self-effacing and willingly self-deprecating'
The Sunday Tribune
The Sunday Tribune
'Great reading'
Sunday Business Post
Sunday Business Post
The Irish Times
The Irish Times
'Joyous account of our hero floundering . . . he is winningly self-effacing and willingly self-deprecating'
The Sunday Tribune
The Sunday Tribune
'Great reading'
Sunday Business Post
Sunday Business Post