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Title: In Foreign Cities (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Translation Series) by Waltraud Mitgutsch, Lowell A. Bangerter, Anna Mitgutsch, Michael Mitchell ISBN: 0-929497-90-2 Publisher: Ariadne Pr Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.50

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Summary: A woman follows her heart's desire and pays heavily for it
Comment: This is a heartbreaking story but one with the touch of truth. The heroine of this narrative is a young American woman, an expatriate who thought the country of Mozart and the Sound of Music was for her, who marries too early and has children too soon - and then she meets the exact opposite to her stodgy, unimaginative Austrian husband: an American arts students touring Europe. It is not merely romantic love that leads her to abandon everything: her adopted country, her husband, even her children - it is also the stifling atmosphere of post-war Austria with its cultural narrowmindedness, its blinkered philistinism, its dangerous flirtation with Nazi ideology. Once she has rashly burned her bridges, the heroine (and there are some autobiographical features here) finds that the USA isn't everything she imagined it to be, and her lover soon wearies of her. In desperation, she is ready to eat humble pie, to return to her homeland and her husband - only to find that she is no longer wanted, that she can't even get a work permit. The end is lyrical, passionate and terribly sad. A moving book and one that will teach you something about Austria's pre-Waldheim years.