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«The European continent is still divided. In the place of the long-demolished Berlin Wall lies the East-West divide, which is about the different ways in which people on both sides continue to live their lives and perceive the world. Are these differences a shadow of the communist legacy, or do they have deeper roots? What separates us today?

It is not enough to say that it is a matter of different perceptions of the past or concepts of time. But when you visit these lands, you will quickly realise that we, Eastern Europeans, exist in a different time zone. We live in this century, but at the same time, we have inherited a past full of myths and fairy tales about blood and nationality. The traveller will also notice many prosaic moments, such as the strange and intrusive smell everywhere, dirty streets, spoilt teeth of the locals, a strange attitude to money, the problem with public toilets, the fact that most people lie or cheat, or have a habit of blaming others for every failure...

A frank excursion into the urban life of Budapest, Tirana, Warsaw and Zagreb, which are still acclimatising to the post-communist realities.

This book does not offer easy solutions or political painkillers. Rather, Slavenka Drakulic, a Croatian with an extraordinary freshness and breadth of perception, offers her precise but humane observations, valuable for their powerful emotional honesty and faceted clarity of insight.

This audiobook was produced with the use of funds from the Institutional Support Grant provided by the Ukrainian Book Institute.

Recorded at the Tak Treba Production Studio Duration: 6 hours 46 minutes 55 seconds