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Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he’s an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.

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    November 15, 2002
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Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.

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Stephen Henighan is the author of four books of fiction, including The Places Where Names Vanish and North of Tourism. His short fiction has been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and the United States. Recently he published the controversial When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing. Henighan teaches Spanish-American literature and culture at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dundurn Press; 1st edition (November 15, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0888784325
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0888784322
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jessica M Brucker
4.0 out of 5 stars Good research material
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2009
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I bought this for a research paper, and the author's personal point-of-view helped to make this book a very good source.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Experienced CIS Traveller" Tries Too Hard to Discredit This Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2009
Like any book, Lost Province has its supporters (like Kim from Africa) and its detractors (like J.L. Jordan). As the book's author, my concern is with J.O. Thorsnas's need to prove himself an "experienced CIS traveller." In his effort to show how much he knows, he distorts the book's contents by claiming "factual errors" that do not exist.

To take his examples one at a time--

*Thorsnas writes two long paragraphs about Lviv, Ukraine, which I supposedly misrepesent. Guess what? Lost Province (page 8) contains only one paragraph about the city. In his excessive reaction, Thorsnas overlooks the fact that, for a traveller from the West, entering the former USSR in 1994, it was the legacy of the very recent past of the Soviet Union --decaying factories, smog, socialist apartment blocks, weird coupons with many zeroes standing in for cash-- that hit you in the face. Yes, in the more distant past, Lviv was a Habsburg city; but that sure wasn't what you noticed in 1994. Now that these cities --Lviv, Cernivitsi--have been cleaned up and have become marginally more prosperous, the Habsburg legacy is once again discernible. But that was not the case at the time Lost Province opens.

*Thorsnas complains that "he simply does not care --or is not able to?--explain that...hardly any teacher, doctor or other academic earn[s] enough to live of[f[ in Moldova..." This is factually incorrect. On pages 34-35 I explain that men won't take jobs as teachers because the salary is too low (I even give the figure), and for this reason only women are unemployed as teachers. Contrary to Thorsnas's subsequent assertion, I illustrate through many of the stories in the book the fact that buying and selling in the informal sector or on the black market, or emigrating, are the only ways to earn a living for younger people. Once again, Thorsnas misrepresents the book's contents.

*Thorsnas berates me for not realizing that the Romanian slang "bisnita" comes from Russian, not from the English word "business." Here I can't argue with him, as I don't know Russian. But I do wonder which language the Russians got this word from? Could it be English?

*Thorsnas refers to a "misunderstanding" (?!) on my part in a scene where a Moldovan friend tells me that the Brezhnev years were the worst period in Soviet history for Moldovans. He seems to be making a claim that I don't realize that Russia, Ukraine and Moldova were all part of the U.S.S.R. at that time. It baffles me how he could think this, as the fact is referred to constantly in the book. Even in the scene where I supposedly "misunderstand" my friend, I cite this person as saying that Brezhnez was, "the worst Soviet leader" (page 57). Thorsnas's criticism depends, once again, on not telling the truth about the words that are on the page.

It's worth noting that when Lost Province was published in Moldova in a Romanian translation in 2005, Moldovan and Romanian journalists and commentators did not complain of factual errors. But then, unlike Thorsnas, they didn't feel that they had to prove that they were acquainted with the region.

--Stephen Henighan
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1.0 out of 5 stars Vastly disappointing as well as annoying
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2005
Stephen Henighan begins by telling us that he was working on his doctoral thesis at Oxford. One would hope after introducing himself in this way that his writing would be better. It is not. It is uneven at best. Actual writing ability aside, the book is unbelievably pretentious. The author has a world view so narrow that it precludes his ability to describe Moldova in any way that is essentially meaningful.

There is interesting information about the tremendous difficulties and politics of language, and yet the information still seems skewed by his rigid world view. The information about Transnistria is interesting, but it is in no way documented and it is hard to tell if he did actual research or if the information simply came from stories he heard.

And lastly, the reader can only feel an overwhelming sorrow and sympathy for any Moldovan unfortunate enough to have to deal with him. Bound up in his own self-righteous, narrow-minded, and essentially selfish way of thinking, his self described behavior to the Moldovans he encounters is, to put it mildly, unfortunate.

At least Americans are no longer alone in their reputation for being boorish and condescending travelers. Henighan has added Canadians to that list - at least in Moldova.

If you want actual information based on real research about Moldova, read Charles King.

If you want a very insightful book that is also very funny, read "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis" by Tony Hawks. Interestingly enough, while Tony Hawks has no pretentions about being a 'great' author, his actual writing is better and more lucid than Henighan's. It also has the advantage of being hysterically funny.
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