My Marshal Baton Was Made of... Naphthalene Another Kind of Memoir
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
13.07.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
244
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,4 cm
Gewicht
333 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798185423837
In 1988, a 32-year-old economist walked into the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade to ask for political asylum - on the one day it happened to be closed.
That is exactly the kind of luck Mihai Baron had. And yet, somehow, he made it out.
My Marshal Baton Was Made of... Naphthalene is the true story of one man's escape from communist Romania, told with a wit so dry you'll laugh before you realize you should be crying. Forced out of his job for "looking West," Mihai left behind a wife and son, crossed Yugoslavia with a briefcase and a half-baked plan, and spent eighteen months in the Traiskirchen refugee camp in Austria - where officials inspected men's hands for calluses to see who was fit to dig ditches. He wore gloves to hide his office-worker's hands. He dug the ditches anyway.
From childhood pranks in a Bucharest apartment block, to the absurd theater of life under dictatorship, to the day he finally landed in Montreal - weeks before the regime fell - this is a Romanian immigrant memoir unlike any you've read. It is a Cold War defector's true story with the soul of a comedian and the heart of a father who slept on the floor so his son could have the bed.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, My Marshal Baton is about starting over in a new country with nothing but nerve, stubbornness, and an unshakable sense of the ridiculous.
A funny, inspirational immigrant story for readers of Eastern European history, refugee memoirs, and anyone who believes the best revenge on a hard life is to laugh at it.
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