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An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where the pushpull between old empires and new possibilities has never been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut Europe in twofirst by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial scaffolding of the EUmoving through vibrant cities and abandoned villages, some places still gloomy under the ghost of these imposing borders, some that have sought to erase all memory of it and jump with both feet into the West if only the West would have them. In The Fault Line, he is a sublime and lively guide through these unfamiliar landscapes, piecing together an atlas that has been erased by modern states, delighting in the discovery of communities that were once engulfed by geopolitics then all but forgotten, until now.