The Border - A Journey Around Russia
MacLehose Press (Verlag)
978-0-85705-780-8 (ISBN)
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An extraordinary odyssey through the fourteen countries that border Russia today
From North Korea into China, through former Soviet states and breakaway republics in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian and Black Seas, northwards to Europe, into the Arctic Circle and through the icy waters of the Northeast Passage, Erika Fatland travels alone and explores the rich, diverse and often dramatic histories and scarred landscapes of these bordering nations.
Along her twenty-thousand-kilometre journey, she meets survivors of interminable wars and indiscriminate deportations, and some communities still nostalgic for Soviet times. She drinks tea with a reindeer nomad in Mongolia and encounters displaced Ingushetians in Kazakhstan; she meets a history professor-turned-tank driver in Ukraine and tours the vestiges of Chernobyl. She hears an extraordinary story of endurance from one of the last survivors of the Minsk Ghetto, and learns that the area of Russia that borders Norway, her own country, is the most polluted place in the world. The Border is the log of an unmatchable journey, and offers vivid portraits of cultures and individuals living at the limits of this dominant land mass.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford/Lonely Planet Debut Travel Writer of the Year Award, Erika Fatland has established herself as a fearless, sharp observer and an outstanding interviewer at the forefront of narrative travel literature.
Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
"The strength of Fatland's book lies in its ability to make history come alive through stories . . . Every chapter is captivating reading" Süddeutsche Zeitung
"Fatland masters the genre to perfection . . . A true delight" Aftenposten
Erika Fatland was born in 1983 and studied Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her 2011 book, The Village of Angels, was an in situ report on the Beslan terror attacks of 2004 and she is also the author of The Year Without Summer, describing the harrowing year that followed the massacre on Utøya in 2011. For Sovietistan (2019) she was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford/Lonely Planet Debut Travel Writer of the Year, and The Border (2020) was shortlisted for the Stanfords Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020. She speaks eight languages and lives in Oslo with her husband. KARI DICKSON is a translator from Norwegian of crime fiction, literary fiction, children's books, theatre and non-fiction, including Erika Fatland's Sovietistan and The Border. She is also an occasional tutor in Norwegian language, literature and translation at the University of Edinburgh, and has worked with B.C.L.T. and the Writers' Centre Norwich.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.10.2020 |
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| Übersetzer | Kari Dickson |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 x 8pp colour plate sections |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 820 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85705-780-4 / 0857057804 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85705-780-8 / 9780857057808 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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