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Shortlisted for the 2015 RSL Ondaatje PrizeNamed one of the Times Literary Supplement's “Books of the Year”“An intimate look at the devastations of communism in Estonia. . . . [a] sensuous, character-rich portrait of the denuded landscape, ruined economy, and erratic, alcoholic personalities she encountered as a dreamy, lonely observer and teacher. . . . [Rausing] unearths fascinating history of this remote area, annexed and depleted by Russia, then Germany, then the Soviet Union. . . . A mellifluous portrait of a country slowly and painfully pulling itself into the European world.”—Kirkus Reviews“Evocative…With a keen, level eye, Rausing reconstructs the blasted landscape of abandoned farmhouses and watchtowers, the truculent personalities of the locals, including her louche drunken landlord Toivo, and the terrible scars of history.”—Publishers Weekly“[A] warm, uplifting memoir . . . Vividly conveys the terminal decline of the collective farm . . . The psychological forlornness resulting from such decline is memorably realized . . . Subtly and convincingly Sigrid manages to convey, in Noarootsi and beyond, a sense, through all the disappointments, instabilities and poverty, of a people’s continuous journey towards a firmer, more inclusive society.”—Times Literary Supplement (UK)“An entrancing, dreamlike account of rural life in post-Soviet Estonia . . . A strange, wonderful, hallucinatory exploration . . . This is not the tale of a moneyed member of the golden elite, but rather of a thoughtful observer trying to make sense of herself and her surroundings. It is extremely affecting.”—Telegraph(UK)“Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia’s terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship and how memory processes that trauma. . . . In Everything is Wonderful [Rausing] evokes the spirit of a lost Baltic community and, in so doing, has written a rather beautiful book.”—Financial Times(UK)“[An] informative and heartfelt account”—Independent(UK)“Sigrid Rausing's memoir is a charming, unsettling and unusually intimate glimpse into the life of an Estonian village in transition.”—Anne Applebaum“A deliciously enjoyable, fascinating and important book that works as scholarship, diary and chronicle—it's a historical study of place, memory and tragedy that reveals the hellish experience of Estonia under Nazis and Soviets, it's a unique anthropological examination of a peculiar now vanished civilisation, the collective farm, and it's also a delightfully quirky diary of a Swedish PhD in the early 1990s that chronicles extraordinary lives of ordinary Estonian people with a playful curiosity.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore“Sigrid Rausing’s lyrical and evocative description of a former collective farm on a remote peninsula in Estonia portrays the transition from Soviet rule to independence. She shows how the suppression of history in the Soviet Union meant that the villagers knew very little about their past, including the brief period of independence between the two world wars, and the violent Nazi and Soviet occupations that followed. This is a startling and beautiful book.”—Lady Antonia Fraser“In this disorientating memoir, Sigrid Rausing describes life as an anthropologist in post-Soviet Estonia. The narrator, her subjects, and their country are caught between worlds, unsure where they are going, why they are going there or indeed if they are going anywhere at all. It is lovely, gentle and very human.”—Oliver Bullough“Intimate, lyrical and evocative—Sigrid Rausing's memoir captures a forgotten world, on the cusp between Sovier occupation and a Western future. Her academic fieldwork among the fragments of the ethnic Swedish presence in an Estonian village has produced a finely drawn literary account of people and places, encompassing history, geography, culture and biography.”—Edward Lucas“A delicate, precise, and richly informative memoir of a forgotten Europe and a vanished world. Everything Is Wonderful shows that grey can be a very interesting color.”—Timothy Garton Ash“In 1993-94, Sigrid Rausing spent a year doing anthropological fieldwork in a former collective farm in post-Soviet Estonia. Twenty years on, that work, and the diaries she kept at the time, and later during a return visit in 2003, come together in this remarkable and instructive book, where continually interesting individual characters are given a broader historical and cultural context. Dr. Rausing combines a keen eye for the telling detail with striking—at times lyrical—descriptions of rural lives and landscapes, and in documenting the “lost futures” of those working there, reminds us again of the dreadful human cost of totalitarianism.”—Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow“Beautiful, gentle and haunting. Every single edge in it seems to be frayed. And what a triumph it is to have allowed that frayedness to survive the whole process of writing it down. It is alive like an old frayed tapestry found in old trunk. Perhaps archaically beautiful is the phrase I am groping after. Like a sort of dance of the blind, slow and gentle, feeling its way, the shoes moving carefully over the floor.”—Adam Nicolson
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About the Author
Sigrid Rausing is a writer, philanthropist, anthropologist, and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust and publisher of "Granta" and Granta Books. She has won several awards for her work in philanthropy and human rights, serves on the advisory board of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and is an emeritus member of the international board of Human Rights Watch.
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Product details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; Reprint edition (March 8, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802122965
ISBN-13: 978-0802122964
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.7 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
12 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#3,292,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Sigrid Rausing chose to spend a year on a remote collective farm in Estonia during that country's transition from Soviet rule to independence. It was a time of great uncertainty, politically, socially and economically. For Rausing, the general feeling of disorientation and confusion was compounded by linguistic barriers and the psychological difficulties in building relationships with people whose lives and livelihoods were collapsing around them. She is a sensitive, intelligent and well schooled observer, providing rich anthropological commentary interspersed with heartfelt personal observations. The result is a fascinating read about a new society struggling to emerge out of the wreck of the old. The first two thirds of the book is especially informative on Estonian history, culture and identity.
This is an odd book. I loved Estonia when I visited so I was looking to learn more about an obscure but interesting country. The author does weave in some interesting interesting history and cultural anecdotes (some quite funny). But, I got the sense that she really longed to write a classic novel but then would occasionally remember that the work was supposed to be essentially documentary in nature. She's a talented writer gifted at capturing the rhythm and feel of the place but, ultimately, I struggled to stay engaged as the story shifted randomly from wistful daydreaming to chronicling and back with little notice.
Somewhere, painfully there is a story here, half told, mostly silent book about not sure what. No clear description, you must search and search for meaning, Swedes are so to the point of honesty as to be rude but in the writing, you wander around lost and hopeless, maybe the book has no point, hurt to read, I hoped for more, but got a limp handshake.
I read everything I can get my hands on about Estonia, and I learn something with each read. Unfortunately, I learned little from this book. I think there's a little too much personal interaction that is only interesting to the writer, and not the reader.
The book was very helpful explaining all of the ethnic and political influences in Estonia. I spent a few days in the West then Tallinn then Narva. This helps explain the differences.
certainly one of the best books written that shows a different culture and harsh life conditions in a remote part of the world...
Good for anyone wanting to understand the history of Estonia and how that is shaping the liberated Estonia since 1991.
Very interesting book dealing with an area that's been an interest of mine since college. Well written.
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