A very clever weaving of accounts of people struggling in
the wake of post-communism in Bulgaria, Cuba, Poland, Ukraine, Albania,
Estonia, Serbia, and Georgia. The
connecting thread, of course, is those bears, whose story takes up the first half of this book. The bears were owned by
Bulgarian Roma and as a condition of that country's entry into the EU were
rehabilitated in a sort of sanctuary dedicated to teaching them to be
free.
Occasionally the metaphor is strained, but mostly it
works well to highlight the oddities and challenges of post-communist life for
millions of people. Thought -provoking.
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