Grosse Erwartungen

The brilliant chronicler of Europe – the new book by bestselling author Geert Mak. From the shores of Lampedusa to Putin's Moscow, from stubborn Catalonia to the Muslim suburbs of Copenhagen: Our continent is stretched to the breaking point. What has become of the old European dream – peace, freedom, and prosperity – thirty years after the end of the Cold War, which is increasingly turning into a nightmare? Geert Mak, the brilliant storyteller among the historians of our time, wrote a classic in 2005 with his book "In Europe" – a travelogue that also serves as an assessment of Europe at the end of a century filled with catastrophes, alongside all the euphoria at the beginning of the new millennium. Where do we stand today, twenty years later? What has happened to the great expectations? No one else succeeds like Mak in exploring the fragile essence of Europe, making it visible and sensibly perceptible through countless stories. And giving a voice to the people of this continent.