The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo, Paula Huntley

These are selections from a journal Paula Huntley kept while teaching English in Kosovo in 1999, while her husband volunteered his legal expertise. There is so much thoughtful material to appreciate here -- Huntley's rose-tinted profiles of her students, her discomfort with America's role in Kosovo, the occasional funny moment of cultural misunderstanding, a look at a country most of us will never visit. Her faith in people is rewarded by her students' appreciation and efforts. Together, Huntley and her students read Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, a book that becomes an expression of hope for the future of the students as individuals and for Kosovo as a country.
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