Polish cleaner takes revenge on ‘filthy’ Germans
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BERLIN — A sharp-tongued Polish cleaning lady is making a splash in Germany with a tell-all memoir revealing the seamy underbelly of Europe’s biggest economy and exploding the myth of Germans’ penchant for order.
“Under German Beds” written under the pen name Justyna Polanska shot to number four on online retailer Amazon’s best-seller list after its release this month.
It is a cringe-inducing, stomach-churning read for the legions of middle-class Germans who employ a cleaner, exposing the pettiness, hypocrisy, lechery and plain filth behind the tidiest facades in the country.
“I wrote this book because I’d like to see more humanity and more respect for cleaning women,” Polanska told AFP.
“Asking during a telephone interview if I have large breasts or am wearing red underwear is rather crass, don’t you think?” she asked, recounting just a few of the degrading experiences the German job market has offered her..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110202com5.html
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