The Fault Line: Traveling the Other Europe, From Finland to Ukraine

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An award-winning creator travels the eastern front of Europe, where the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in two—first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EU—moving through vibrant cities and abandoned villages, some places still gloomy under the ghost of these imposing borders, some that have sought to erase all memory of it and jump with both feet into the West (if only the West would have them). In The Fault Line, he’s a sublime and full of life guide through these unfamiliar landscapes, piecing together an atlas that has been erased by brand new states, delighting within the discovery of communities that were once engulfed by geopolitics then all but forgotten, until now.The farther south he goes, the more he feels he’s traveling not along some abandoned Eastern frontier, but right in the course of things: Mitteleuropa wasn’t to be found in Viennese cafés but much farther east, beyond even Budapest and Warsaw. As in Ukraine, these remain places in flux, where the political and cultural values of the East and West have stared each and every other down for centuries. Rumiz gives a human face not just to what the Cold War left in the back of but to the ancient ties of empire and ethnicity which can be still on the root of brand new politics in flash-point areas such as this.

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