Jorwerd: The Death of the Village in Late C20th Europe by: Geert Mak
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Publisher: The Harvill Press
Release date: 26th October, 2000
Media: Paperback
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Rating: - Very revealing book about life in a small community
I have to declare firstly that I spent most of my childhood in the village at the centre of this book; it was pretty much as Mak describes.
The book shows what happens to traditional ways of living when the foundations for that lifestyle change - small shops are outcompeted by the big superstores, working villages turn into commuter-belt dormitories, communities are split over the impact of change. When much of that change affects the economic underpinning of the community (in the case of Jorwerd, dairy farming), the whole fabric changes, and Mak describes this both at a personal level and in terms of how the village in general changes.
Rating: - How village life has changed
The Dutch original topped the bestseller lists in Holland for months and the author has become a celebrity. It is a wonderful and intriguing description and analysis of how village life and the basis of village community has changed over the past century. The author combines his skills in journalism with anthropological methods and analysis, resulting in a very readable and compelling book. The processes he describes are prototypical for so many villages in the Netherlands (speaking from my own experience), and elsewhere (as I understand from English friends whom we gave a copy). Highly recommended.
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