Europeans
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
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A landmark work of literary journalism, Europeans chronicles the lives of ordinary people across the continent as they navigate the profound social, political, and cultural upheavals of the late twentieth century. Jane Kramer, long celebrated as The New Yorker's European correspondent, presents a series of richly reported portraits — from a German farmer grappling with his country's Nazi past to a French family caught between tradition and modernity — that together compose a sweeping, intimate mosaic of European identity. Written with wit, empathy, and unflinching precision, the narrative illustrates how grand historical forces play out in the textures of everyday life. Kramer argues, through her subjects' stories, that Europe's postwar transformation is not merely a matter of politics or economics, but a deeply personal reckoning with memory, belonging, and change. The result is a masterwork of on-the-ground reporting that remains as resonant and illuminating today as when it was first published.
Author: Jane Kramer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary journalism, Europeans chronicles the lives of ordinary people across the continent as they navigate the profound social, political, and cultural upheavals of the late twentieth century. Jane Kramer, long celebrated as The New Yorker's European correspondent, presents a series of richly reported portraits — from a German farmer grappling with his country's Nazi past to a French family caught between tradition and modernity — that together compose a sweeping, intimate mosaic of European identity. Written with wit, empathy, and unflinching precision, the narrative illustrates how grand historical forces play out in the textures of everyday life. Kramer argues, through her subjects' stories, that Europe's postwar transformation is not merely a matter of politics or economics, but a deeply personal reckoning with memory, belonging, and change. The result is a masterwork of on-the-ground reporting that remains as resonant and illuminating today as when it was first published.