Title: Room service
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Travel, Description and travel, Biography, Journalists, Europe, eastern, description and travel, Journalists, biography, Europe, eastern, social conditions, Journeys
Places: Eastern Europe, Sweden
People: Richard Swartz (1945-)