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Pete Buttigieg recommended Palace Walk in Books (curated)

 
Palace Walk
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz | 1994 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"I’ve recently returned to this very readable history of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Published soon after 2000, it now seems ahead of its time in pointing out how the seeds of oligarchy were sown through the unmanageable end of Communism and the arrival of capitalism without democracy."

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The Firemen's Ball (1967)
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
1967 | Comedy, Drama
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"This was a new film for me and one I had long read about. The film is apparently an allegory about communism in Czechoslovakia. It is very funny and charming, particularly the beauty competition, which is at the heart of the story, and the fantastic unwillingness of the contestants. Milos Forman’s account of the making of the film was extremely relevant."

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