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Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Vintage A fascinating account from a highly acclaimed writerof the life and charming inhabitants of a typical countryside village and how it must adapt and change in order to survive in. the modern worldThe countryside is in crisis. The shops are closing down in the villages. there is no school for miles around and. when they grow up. the few remaining children will escape to a less arduous life in the city. The village as we have known it for centuries must adapt to survive. but what will be lost in the process In this book Geert Mak returns to the smallNetherlands village of his childhood. Jorwerd (pop. 330 and falling). and meets the present-day Jorwerders: a stubborn. stoic people for whom the flat. windswept landscape has been a source of livelihood for generations. but is now rarely more than a tourist attraction. He h...
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"Eloquent" (Guardian)
"Movingly relevant" (Irish Times)
"Mak is good on the pulse of the village, its ebb and flow as people come and go, but running throughout the book is a genuine anger that this is a meritorious way of life we are too eager to dismiss" (Lesley McDowell Independent of Sunday)
"A big subject, neatly summarized, in which he also studies the changes in people's values that take place when they move to big cities, and the role now played by incomers in village life" (Alastair Mabbott Herald)
"Nowhere has the silent rural revolution been described more beautifully and with mroe feeling" (Volkskrant)
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"Mak is good on the pulse of the village, its ebb and flow as people come and go, but running throughout the book is a genuine anger that this is a meritorious way of life we are too eager to dismiss" (Lesley McDowell Independent of Sunday)
"A big subject, neatly summarized, in which he also studies the changes in people's values that take place when they move to big cities, and the role now played by incomers in village life" (Alastair Mabbott Herald)
"Nowhere has the silent rural revolution been described more beautifully and with mroe feeling" (Volkskrant)
A fascinating account of the life and charming inhabitants of a typical countryside village, and how it must adapt and change in order to survive in the modern world.
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