In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall

By:

Tweedie, Sanford [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780803271609

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PS3620 .I584 2013

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Contents:

Subject: Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically ... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives-housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as t.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PS3620.43 Z46 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn830162302

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads; 1. Breaking Down the Wall; 2. But for the Weather; 3. Leaving the American Sector; 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt; 5. ALFs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei; 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again; 7. Destinations and Wanderings; 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR; 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did; 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down; 11. In Former Times; Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall.

Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically ... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives-housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as t.

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