There's An Egg in my Soup by Tom Galvin

There's An Egg in my Soup by Tom Galvin

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 joy of Polish life. He returned in 2007, to find surprising changes to the country that had been his home for the first years of his working life. An interesting and amusing account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history.

'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 *

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 Little Book of Dublin and That’s Cork. He lives in Wicklow with his Polish wife, Asia.

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ISBN 13	9781847170484
ISBN 10	184717048X
Title	There's An Egg in my Soup
Author	Tom Galvin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	O'Brien Press Ltd
Year published	2007-09-21
Number of pages	272
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