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Far and Away

Reporting from the Brink of Change

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Far and Away

Von: Andrew Solomon
Gesprochen von: Andrew Solomon
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 From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Travel narrative and global cultures come alive in this extraordinary collection.

Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political upheaval, cultural transformation, and social change. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter.

A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Ehe & Familie Essays Großstadt Politik & Regierungen Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
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I really liked Andrew Solomon's first book "Irony Tower" about the Soviet art scene at the end of Perestroyka and the begin of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. I had met some of the people described there myself and had heard of others, and found the description very sensitive and understanding, as well as smart and sometimes funny. It really displayed an exceptional understanding, at least for an American author.
This book seemed interesting to me, as I thought maybe it is kind of an extended version of the Irony Tower book, something on that level, just on a worldwide scale, so to speak. And that's the problem: I think it really doesn't work as one text, it remains a collection of more or less interesting stories and all this together is way too long and I really found it hard to listen to all of it. I think he should have written one text about his travels, much shorter and much better, instead of simply putting all those pieces together. Presenting all this in a more structured and interesting way would have made for a good book.
I also found it hard to follow all those names, i.e. in the Chinese art scene of the early 90s. Most of those people are not even known by Google today. If you have no idea who the person is and what his/her art looks like, it is simply quite cumbersome to go through all this. Maybe a section with images would have helped a little (I also have the printed volume).
The last story of him getting lost in open water is strong. I think it's the best part of this collection of articles, it is really touching.
This is obvioulsy a pretty egocentric collection of stories, so it makes sense that he also is the speaker of the audiobook. However, I don't think this is technically such a good idea, since it sounds a little bit as if Kermit the Frog was singing a Sermon.
He also displays much of the typical naivety of rich liberal minded Americans who discover the rest of the world as clearly divided between good and bad and who are happy to find "noble savages" everywhere.

too long, doesn't really work as a book

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