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The Breaking of Eggs: A Novel
by Jim Powell

Published: 2010-07-27
Paperback : 342 pages
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A debut novel unwinds the tangle of twentieth-century history with wit, humor, and humanity

61-year-old Feliks is a naturalized Frenchman, a displaced Pole and former Communist-and a curmudgeon-who has made his living writing a yearly travel guide to the countries behind the Iron ...
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A debut novel unwinds the tangle of twentieth-century history with wit, humor, and humanity

61-year-old Feliks is a naturalized Frenchman, a displaced Pole and former Communist-and a curmudgeon-who has made his living writing a yearly travel guide to the countries behind the Iron Curtain. In 1991, with the Curtain now fallen, Feliks finds his beliefs beginning to crumble around him. When a rapacious American publisher offers to buy out his life's work, Feliks must travel to the country he has long despised, and so begins the wry and moving tale of a man who awakens from self-imposed isolation into a changed world he must get to know all over again. So unfolds a story of family, war, politics, a second chance at love, and one man's quest for himself.

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  "Slow Moving"by Kathy M. (see profile) 02/22/11

I enjoy reading but I don't want to have to stumble over words and titles. This had a lot of foreign words that made it difficult to read at first - but then I just glanced over some of the wording. ... (read more)

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