Paprika Paradise
Travels in the Land of My Almost Birth
Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel
| Author: | James Jeffrey | ISBN: | 9780733630149 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia | Publication: | August 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Jeffrey |
| ISBN: | 9780733630149 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Publication: | August 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Language: | English |
For James Jeffrey, his mother?s homeland of Hungary has always featured in family stories ? sometimes as a fairytale land, other times as an exotic parallel universe. It is a place where storks build nests as large as tables on chimney tops and grandparents live in suburbs called Uranium Town. People say `hello? when they mean `goodbye?, have no word for `he? or `she?, and bestow an almost godlike status on cakes and lard.
It is the country where James?s mother, a volatile divorcee who could outflirt Zsa Zsa Gabor, and his father, a coal miner from a particularly sensible part of England, began an unlikely romance that lasted until the other end of the earth.
With his wife, children and still-warring parents in tow, James decided that the time had come to go back to Hungary. Their journey into the little-known paprika paradise is hilarious, thought-provoking and completely unpredictable.
`Joyous, illuminating and enchanting? Herald Sun
For James Jeffrey, his mother?s homeland of Hungary has always featured in family stories ? sometimes as a fairytale land, other times as an exotic parallel universe. It is a place where storks build nests as large as tables on chimney tops and grandparents live in suburbs called Uranium Town. People say `hello? when they mean `goodbye?, have no word for `he? or `she?, and bestow an almost godlike status on cakes and lard.
It is the country where James?s mother, a volatile divorcee who could outflirt Zsa Zsa Gabor, and his father, a coal miner from a particularly sensible part of England, began an unlikely romance that lasted until the other end of the earth.
With his wife, children and still-warring parents in tow, James decided that the time had come to go back to Hungary. Their journey into the little-known paprika paradise is hilarious, thought-provoking and completely unpredictable.
`Joyous, illuminating and enchanting? Herald Sun
