{"product_id":"everything-is-wonderful-memories-of-a-collective-farm-in-estonia-9780802122964","title":"Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia's terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watch towers dotted the coast line, and the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were lying fallow, waiting for claims from former owners who had fled war and Soviet and Nazi occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRausing's conversations with the local people touched on many subjects: the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, and the Swedish background of many of them. In \u003ci\u003eEverything Is Wonderful\u003c\/i\u003e Rausing reflects on history, political repression, and the story of the minority Swedes in the area. Here she tells her story of what she observed as she lived and worked among the villagers--witnessing their transition from repression to freedom, and from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A delicate, precise, and richly informative memoir of a forgotten Europe and a vanished world.\" --Timothy Garton Ash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sigrid Rausing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802122964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigrid Rausing\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, philanthropist, anthropologist, and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust and publisher of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and Granta Books. She has won several awards for her work in philanthropy and human rights, serves on the advisory board of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and is an emeritus member of the international board of Human Rights Watch. \u003ci\u003eEverything Is Wonderful\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45440014254195,"sku":"9780802122964","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e5b49f55-fc2b-4362-ba91-b76889cedda6.jpg?v=1788440261","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/everything-is-wonderful-memories-of-a-collective-farm-in-estonia-9780802122964","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}