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Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
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A mesmerising trip across central Asia . . . All credit to Erika Fatland, who may have titled her central Asian travelogue Sovietistan, but who treats each with care and attention. Part diary, part sociopolitical analysis . . . A fascinating travelogue (Henry Foy Financial Times)

This talented narrator has compiled a book of timeless stories. Social anthropologist Erika Fatland has intertwined her encounters with well-researched digressions in history, politics and geography. (Renate Nimtz-Köster Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Engaging . . . The reader learns a lot about all kinds of subjects. (Sara Wheeler Spectator)

Now to be numbered among the best travel writers, the brilliant and intrepid Norwegian Erika Fatland has observed deserts, villages, metropolises and mountains to bring back a jewel of story of adventure, intermingled histories, geography, geology, culture and politics. (Jean-Christophe Buisson Figaro)

Even if you're not currently planning a trip to Central Asia, this book will change your mind (Klassekampen)

A road trip dotted with curious incidents, thought-provoking observations and absurd stories, from culinary disasters to snapshots of everyday life under a dictatorship. A fine mingling of facts and the observations of a true travel writer (Reiselyst Magazine)

Fatland really knows her subject and writes with conviction. After her thoughtful writing on Beslan and the massacre on Utoya, there was every reason to have huge expectations. They have been more than fulfilled. (Dagbladet)

This is another Asia visited by the Norwegian Erika Fatland . . . countries of contrasts, of extreme wealth and the madness of dictators who build white marble cities in the desert (Culture France)

Reminiscent of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun, Sovietistan blends complex history with Fatland's own clear-eyed reporting, the devastation of the Soviet era always in the background (and sometimes the foreground) (Star Tribune)

An introduction to a deeply misunderstood part of the world...the complexity and beauty of this region are best represented when she goes back in time. Fatland has a level of access most outsiders would never have. (Sebastian Modak New York Times Book Review)
Книга на английском языке.
В "Советистане" норвежская писательница и социальный антрополог Эрика Фатланд приглашает читателя посетить мир, неизвестный даже самым заядлым путешественникам. После распада Советского Союза в 1991 году пять бывших советских республик - Казахстан, Киргизстан, Таджикистан, Туркменистан и Узбекистан - получили независимость. К 2016 году независимость этих стран отметила 25 летний юбилей. В каком направлении стали развиваться эти страны с той поры? С целью исследовать этот вопрос Эрика Фатланд отправилась в свое путешествие. С сочувствием и страстью к повествованию она рассказывает об истории, культуре и состоянии общества в этих странах на сегодняшний день. Когда-то эти территории пролегали вдоль Великого шелкового пути. В XX веке они пошли по пути следования коммунистическим идеалам. Здесь, в самом сердце Азии, сохранились древние традиции, такие как похищения невест и орлиная охота. На руинах советского общества выросли суперсовременные города и предприятия нефтегазовой промышленности; в то время как в одних странах получила развитие демократия, в других пышным цветом цветет возглавляемая грозными тиранами диктатура. Знакомясь с "Советистаном", читатель становится свидетелем незабываемых человеческих судеб, великолепных пейзажей, драматических страниц мировой истории, отчаяния и надежды.
Kniga na anglijskom jazyke.
V "Sovetistane" norvezhskaja pisatelnitsa i sotsialnyj antropolog Erika Fatland priglashaet chitatelja posetit mir, neizvestnyj dazhe samym zajadlym puteshestvennikam. Posle raspada Sovetskogo Sojuza v 1991 godu pjat byvshikh sovetskikh respublik - Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan i Uzbekistan - poluchili nezavisimost. K 2016 godu nezavisimost etikh stran otmetila 25 letnij jubilej. V kakom napravlenii stali razvivatsja eti strany s toj pory? S tselju issledovat etot vopros Erika Fatland otpravilas v svoe puteshestvie. S sochuvstviem i strastju k povestvovaniju ona rasskazyvaet ob istorii, kulture i sostojanii obschestva v etikh stranakh na segodnjashnij den. Kogda-to eti territorii prolegali vdol Velikogo shelkovogo puti. V XX veke oni poshli po puti sledovanija kommunisticheskim idealam. Zdes, v samom serdtse Azii, sokhranilis drevnie traditsii, takie kak pokhischenija nevest i orlinaja okhota. Na ruinakh sovetskogo obschestva vyrosli supersovremennye goroda i predprijatija neftegazovoj promyshlennosti; v to vremja kak v odnikh stranakh poluchila razvitie demokratija, v drugikh pyshnym tsvetom tsvetet vozglavljaemaja groznymi tiranami diktatura. Znakomjas s "Sovetistanom", chitatel stanovitsja svidetelem nezabyvaemykh chelovecheskikh sudeb, velikolepnykh pejzazhej, dramaticheskikh stranits mirovoj istorii, otchajanija i nadezhdy.
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