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The Breaking of Eggs

Published
Aug 2010
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Literary Literary
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342

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A debut novel unwinds the tangle of twentieth-century history with wit, humor, and humanity

61-year-old Feliks is a naturalized Frenchman, a displaced Pole and former Communist-and a curmudgeon-who has made his living writing a yearly travel guide to the countries behind the Iron Curtain. In 1991, with the Curtain now fallen, Feliks finds his beliefs beginning to crumble around him. When a rapacious American publisher offers to buy out his life's work, Feliks must travel to the country he has long despised, and so begins the wry and moving tale of a man who awakens from self-imposed isolation into a changed world he must get to know all over again. So unfolds a story of family, war, politics, a second chance at love, and one man's quest for himself.

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First Edition Aug 2010 Penguin ISBN 0143117262
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Jan 2010 Orion (UK) ISBN 0297859773
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Jul 2010 Penguin ISBN B003T0G9KS
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Jun 2016 Orion Publishing Group ISBN B01B2310P2
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