"A humorous, non-fiction narrative describing adventures of American ceramic artist Dennis Parks in Central Europe, and changes occurring there as reflected in the lives of his counterparts during their uncertain passage from drab Communist repression into benign Capitalist neglect. This book concentrates on artistic activity in the core of Mitteleuropa - Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland - from 1982 to 1994, while Socialism was deliquescing--
