A review by mamasquirrel
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor

3.0

Tragic and lovely but too meandering for my short-witted child-addled brain right now. Tragic because of lines like this "Nearly all the people in this book, as it turned out, were attached to trails of powder which were already invisibly burning, to explode during the next decade and a half, in unhappy endings" (180). The Eastern Europe that Fermor saw and wrote about has been so utterly changed by war...he was writing about cultures and people distinct to that time. Tragic and amazing.