Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the the National Book Award
In The Haunted Land Rosenberg examines how four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe—East Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic—are dealing with the memories of forty years of communism. As these nations struggle to atone for the crimes committed during their communist pasts and as the former victims confront their jailers, they must answer the questions: Who is guilty? How should they be punished? And who is qualified to sit in judgment in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice? Rosenberg brilliantly puts a human face on the abstractions of intrigue and betrayal, memory and ideology, showing how people struggle with their own definitions of guilt as they learn their betrayers were their husbands, fathers, and best friends. She tells stories of lives in turmoil as people wrestle with the crimes and everyday complicities of the Communist past—their leaders', their friends', and most devastating, their own.
WINNER
| 1996 Pulitzer Prize
WINNER
| 1995 National Book Awards
Tina Rosenberg is a journalist who lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. She now lives in Washington, DC.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the the National Book Award
In The Haunted Land Rosenberg examines how four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe—East Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic—are dealing with the memories of forty years of communism. As these nations struggle to atone for the crimes committed during their communist pasts and as the former victims confront their jailers, they must answer the questions: Who is guilty? How should they be punished? And who is qualified to sit in judgment in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice? Rosenberg brilliantly puts a human face on the abstractions of intrigue and betrayal, memory and ideology, showing how people struggle with their own definitions of guilt as they learn their betrayers were their husbands, fathers, and best friends. She tells stories of lives in turmoil as people wrestle with the crimes and everyday complicities of the Communist past—their leaders', their friends', and most devastating, their own.
Awards
WINNER
| 1996 Pulitzer Prize
WINNER
| 1995 National Book Awards
Author
Tina Rosenberg is a journalist who lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. She now lives in Washington, DC.
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