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Ben Aitken

A Chip Shop in Poznań

'One of the funniest books of the year' — Paul Ross, talkRADIO


WARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.


Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop.


Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.


In 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn't love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place he'd never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage.


When he wasn't peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country's surface: he milked cows with a Eurosceptic farmer; missed the bus to Auschwitz; spent Christmas with complete strangers and went to Gdańsk to learn how communism got the…
334 бумажные страницы
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2019
Год выхода издания
2019
Издательство
Icon Books
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