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Chargement... Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Changepar Andrew Solomon
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Andrew Solomon's monologue for The Moth, in which he hires a ritual healer in Senegal, sent me to this anthology, a mix of travel writing and empathetic reporting from abroad about art world insiders and outsider or outcast communities. The n'deup sacrifice is here as recounted in Esquire, a dancing circle "to bring you back to joy" out of depression. ("I had to say, 'Spirits, leave me alone to complete the business of my life and know that I will never forget you.' And I thought, What a kind thing to say to the evil spirits you're exorcising, 'I'll never forget you.'") It's emblematic of his work, accepting the commonplace and the exotic as equally, simply human. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Essays chronicle the author's activist stint on the Moscow barricades in 1991, his 2002 account of cultural rebirth in post-Taliban Afghanistan, and other stories of profound change.
Psychologist, lecturer and activist Andrew Solomon's essays about places undergoing seismic political and cultural shifts, around the globe and across a generation. A testament to the importance of travel and bearing witness, they encompass South Africa and Brazil, China and Romania, Guatemala and the Solomon Islands, exploring history as it unfolds, largely through the people who are creating and being shaped by it. He learns from former political prisoners, transgender bartenders, rape victims, and shamans. He describes staring down tanks on the barricades in Moscow during the putsch that ended the Soviet Union, being left adrift at the Great Barrier Reef and brought in for questioning in Qaddafi's Libya, and carousing all night in Kabul with musicians finally able to play again after the US invasion drove away the Taliban. Far and Away chronicles a life's journey to the nexus of hope, courage, and the uncertainty of lived experience, while illuminating the development of Solomon's singularly insightful and empathetic worldview. These essays are rooted in intimate, deeply moving stories that reveal and revel in our common humanity.--Adapted from dust jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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