Description
Hari Kunzru travesl to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone underworld beneath the Peak District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake.
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 255
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781905881697
ISBN10: 190588169X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Published: 08/06/2013
Pages: 255
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781905881697
ISBN10: 190588169X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
About the Author
John Freeman's criticism has appeared in more than two hundred newspapers around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Times (UK), and The Wall Street Journal. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, THE TYRANNY OF EMAIL, was published in 2009. HOW TO READ A NOVELIST will be published in 2013. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Zyzzyva.