Dancing Bears

Author : Witold Szabłowski
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925603369
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Bears written by Witold Szabłowski and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.

Author : Elizabeth Stanley
Publisher : Uwa Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781875560370
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deliverance of Dancing Bears written by Elizabeth Stanley and published by Uwa Pub. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary fable about a dancing bear, whose dreams of freedom keep her spirit alive despite the pain and degradation of her existence.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006745113
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Bear written by Michael Morpurgo and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1994 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing disturbs the peace of a French village until the arrival of a bear cub. Adopted by the orphaned Roxanne, he quickly becomes part of village life, and the village grows to be famous for its honey. Then a film company arrives to make a video starring Niki, the pop singer, as the Pied Piper.

Author : Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930900509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Celebrated Dancing Bear written by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.

Author : Carly Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780440847571
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amy, the Dancing Bear written by Carly Simon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Bear tries to persuade her young daughter Amy to stop dancing and go to bed with unexpected results.

Author : Andy Stanton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781405293730
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear written by Andy Stanton and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains, and words like "wab ," "tungler," and "kelp?" COURSE you do Well, guess what, THE TRUTH IS A LEMON MERINGUE.

Author : Phoebe Stone
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316815802
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Wind Bears Go Dancing written by Phoebe Stone and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who hasn't wondered what's going on when the wind outside your window blows and howls all night long? In this magical explanation for stormy weather, one small child joins the wild and woolly Wind Bears as they cavort in the moonlit sky to music performed by the stormy night band.

Author : Hilary Burkard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905174362
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Track written by Hilary Burkard and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613125918
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Bear written by Peter Dickinson and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1988-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a raid by the Huns, the slave Silvester, his dancing bear, Bubba, and Holy John attempt to find Lady Ariadne.

Author : Witold Szablowski
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101993383
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Bears written by Witold Szablowski and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered* “Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom An incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, by the acclaimed author of How to Feed a Dictator For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting—of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro—provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule. From the Introduction: “Guys with wacky hair who promise a great deal have been springing up in our part of the world like mushrooms after rain. And people go running after them, like bears after their keepers. . . . Fear of a changing world, and longing for someone . . . who will promise that life will be the same as it was in the past, are not confined to Regime-Change Land. In half the West, empty promises are made, wrapped in shiny paper like candy. And for this candy, people are happy to get up on their hind legs and dance.”