Eva Mokhlis itibaren Zimnice Małe, Poland

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2019-05-08 18:40

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4/24/11: Sarah Turnbull a young Australian journalist, comes to Paris to live with a French lawyer whom she'd fallen in love with. This is the story of the six years of her acculturation, which begins, well, inauspiciously, but ends up (not surprisingly) happily. The first half, the part where everything she tries to do seems like a failure, is accurate, and often hilarious, but also comes across as a bit whiny, superficial, and also repetitive. But the second half gets more interesting, as the narrator begins to explore and wrestle with some deeper questions about cultural differences. As she becomes comfortable herself with her new home and country, she can grapple with more complex ideas: the role of women in French culture and politics; the contradictory nature of French bureaucracy and rules; the reasons behind the alien nature of a formal dinner party. Having barely scratched the surface of these cultural differences over the last eight months, I found these chapters fascinating and helpful. (Though it is still amazing to think that one guide for ex-pats trying to get along at a French dinner party gives the advice: "Pretend you're a chair. Then, when noone talks to you, you won't have hurt feelings. Who would talk to a chair?") Turnbull's writing is journalistic--a bit speedy, every so often a bit sloppy, but easy and fun to read. And it's nice to have an Aussie viewpoint, rather than an American, as it made me push myself out of an American mindset just a bit. I mean, we're all Anglos to the French, but we know the shades of difference!

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