Zwanzig Lewa oder tot

Karl-Markus Gauss went travelling again, in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In Moldova, the poorest state on the continent, he has been infected with the "Moldavian longing", the sympathy for the country and its people. In Bulgaria, he explores a different country from the one from which bad political news always reaches us. And in Zagreb he discovers the interplay of remembering and forgetting that characterizes the national culture of Croatia. Finally, in Vojvodina, once a Europe in miniature, he follows in the footsteps of his Danube Swabian mother. Knowledgeably, Gauss combines reportage, history and autobiography into travel literature that no one else knows how to write.