title: The Long and Winding Road through Inner and Outer Trenches of Post-Soviet Europe
abstract: Two books, one by an Iranian-born German philosopher writer, another by a Polish reporter, create travelogues that shed a meaningful light on Poland and more or less adjacent countries and territories heavily tried by history and the present. Navid Kermani actually travels through Poland on his circuitous route through post-Soviet countries to the land of his birth, leaving us a thoughtful and quite readable travel diary, as the English publishers—the book is a translation from German—call it. T
journal: The Polish Review