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Ben Aitken

A Chip Shop in Poznań

'One of the funniest books of the year' — Paul Ross, talkRADIO


WARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.


Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop.


Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.


In 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn't love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place he'd never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage.


When he wasn't peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country's surface: he milked cows with a Eurosceptic farmer; missed the bus to Auschwitz; spent Christmas with complete strangers and went to Gdańsk to learn how communism got the…
334 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
Publisher
Icon Books
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