Grosse Erwartungen

The brilliant chronicle of a continent: the new book by bestselling author Geert Mak is now available in paperback. From the coasts 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." But where do we stand today, twenty years later? What has happened to the great expectations? No one else can capture the fragile essence of Europe and give a voice to the people of this continent like Mak does through countless stories.