Description
Product ID: | 9781447276265 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | This is Europe |
Subtitle: | The Way We Live Now |
Authors: | Author: Ben Judah |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Reportage & collected journalism, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Travel writing, Poverty & unemployment, Social discrimination & inequality, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Travel writing, Europe, 21st century |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A portrait of Europe as it has never been seen before, told through twenty extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it. <p>A <i>Times</i>, <i>Financial Times </i>and <i>Telegraph</i> Book of the Year 2023<br><br><b>'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time'</b> - Gideon Rachman, <i>Financial Times</i><br><b>'Vivid, urgent and unsettling'</b> - Tom Holland, author of <i>Dominion</i><br>_____<br><br>What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted waters, and risk life itself in search of safety and a new start?<br><br>In a series of vivid but always empathetic portraits of other people’s lives, journalist Ben Judah invites us to meet them. Drawn from hours of painstaking interviews, these vital stories reveal a vibrant continent which has been transformed by diversity, migration, the internet, climate change, Covid, war and the quest for freedom.<br><br>Laid dramatically bare, it may not always be a Europe we recognize – but this is Europe.<br>_____<br><br><b>'An astonishing achievement' </b>- <i>Evening Standard</i><br><b>'Brilliantly told . . . highly readable' </b>- <i>The Times</i></p> |
Imprint Name: | Picador |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-06-15 |