Room service
Subtitle: reports from Eastern Europe
By: Richard Swartz ; translated from the Swedish by Linda Haverty Rugg.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Swartz, Richard, 1945- -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.; Journalists -- Sweden -- Biography.; Europe, Eastern -- Description and travel.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Room Service offers detailed images of the people and places of Richard Swartz's adopted slice of Europe, and thoughtful reflection on his status as a privileged outsider.

We meet Serbian poets and priests in the service of war, the bewitching wife of a Romanian bigot, a Czech factory manager turned hotel porter in the wake of 1968, Ceaucescu's masseuse, the king of all the gypsies, a cantor who is the last survivor of a Jewish community, and many others - famous, infamous, and anonymous - who take their places in a fascinating, moving, and sometimes cuttingly funny history of a region at the brink of enormous change.