{"product_id":"9781785786266-chip-shop-in-poznan","title":"A Chip Shop in Poznan","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy Unlikely Year in Poland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy do the Poles leave Poland? Travel writer Ben Aitken booked a one-way ticket to Poznan to find out. This account of his year is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, \u003ci\u003etalkRADIO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 Gdansk to learn how communism got the chop. By the year's end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains, northern beaches, dumplings! - and an uncanny ability to bone cod.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a candid, funny and offbeat tale of a year as an unlikely immigrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32524211716193,"sku":"9781785786266","price":9.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40210649.jpg?v=1772685545","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781785786266-chip-shop-in-poznan","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}