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Marci Shore's The Taste of Ashes is a work of reportage and intellectual history on how Eastern Europe lived with, and after, totalitarianism. Shore, a Yale historian, builds the book from interviews with writers, dissidents and ordinary people across Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic and the former Soviet Union. It reads as a companion to her earlier study of Polish intellectuals, Caviar and Ashes, but is broader in geography and more personal in voice. Readers who want a narrative account of post-1989 memory and disillusionment will find it rewarding; those looking for a conventional chronological history may find its essayistic structure loose.
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Reviewers treat The Taste of Ashes as a thoughtful, well-reported meditation on memory and disillusionment in post-communist Europe. Praise centers on Shore's interviews and her ability to make abstract ideas concrete. Criticism focuses on its loose structure and density.