A Chip Shop in Pozna? (eBook)

My Unlikely Year in Poland

Ben Aitken (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 1. Auflage
306 Seiten
Icon Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78578-559-7 (ISBN)

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'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 Gdansk to learn how communism got the chop. By the year's end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains, northern beaches, dumplings! - and an uncanny ability to bone cod. This is a candid, funny and offbeat tale of a year as an unlikely immigrant.

Ben Aitken was born under Thatcher, grew to 6ft then stopped, and is an Aquarius. He is the author of six books: Dear Bill Bryson, A Chip Shop in Poznan (a Times bestseller), The Gran Tour ('Both moving and hilarious', Spectator), The Marmalade Diaries, Here Comes the Fun and Shitty Breaks.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa
• Schlagworte: Brexit • Britain • Gdansk • Immigrant • Immigration • Poland • Polish • Polish immigration • Poznan • Travel • Travel Memoir • Travel writing
• ISBN-10: 1-78578-559-1 / 1785785591
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78578-559-7 / 9781785785597