An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics’ Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How...
An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage
Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics’ Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since then?
In the Kyrgyzstani villages Erika Fatland meets victims of the widely known tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets Chinese shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea and she witnesses the fall of a dictator. She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, German Menonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani plains 200 years ago. During her travels, she observes how ancient customs clash with gas production and she witnesses the underlying conflicts between ethnic Russians and the majority in a country that is slowly building its future in Nationalist colours.
In these countries, that used to be the furthest border of the Soviet Union, life follows another pace of time. Amidst the treasures of Samarkand and the bleakness of Soviet architecture, Erika Fatland moves with her openness towards the people and the landscapes around her. A rare and unforgettable travelogue.
Erika Fatland was born in 1983 and studied Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her 2011 book, The Village of Angels, was an in situ report on the Beslan terror attacks of 2004 and she is also the author of The Year Without Summer, describing the harrowing year that followed the massacre on Utøya in 2011. She speaks eight languages and lives in Oslo with her husband.
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Map of “Sovietistan”
Names
List of Illustrations
The Door to Hell
TURKMENISTAN
Map of Turkmenistan
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Map of “Sovietistan”
Names
List of Illustrations
The Door to Hell
TURKMENISTAN
Map of Turkmenistan
The Underground People
The Marble City
Dictatorstan
Desert Flower
The Dictator’s Fall
The Final Expedition
The Era of Supreme Happiness
Borderland
KAZAKHSTAN
Map of Kazakhstan
An Oasis of Sushi and A.T.M.s
On the Tracks
The Sea that Vanished
The Empire
Kazakh Polo
Stalin’s Pawns
The Capital City
The Great Experiment
A Weak Heart
Father of Apples
The Tired Activist
A Hard Blow
TAJIKISTAN
Map of Tajikistan
Mercedes Benz Capital
Out of Time
The Sad Serving Lady
The Faces of War
The Great Game
Map of Russian Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
The Land at the Foot of the Sun
Let’s Fight Corruption Together!
KYRGYZSTAN
Map of Kyrgyzstan
Moment of Freedom
Don’t Cry, You are My Wife Now
The Eagle Men
The Last Germans in Rot-Front
Greek Nuts
Five Days in June
Silence in the Waiting Room
Do You Have Any Porn with You, Miss?
UZBEKISTAN
Map of Uzbekistan
The Art of Keeping up Appearances
Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of
The Museum in the Desert
The God of Cotton
In Search of Lost Time
Pearls of the Silk Road
The End Station
Afterword – The Death of a Dictator
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author and Translator
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1 有用 Apathetic Frog 2023-08-17 06:24:54 英国
人类学出身的 Fatland 写的这本和中文系出身的刘子超写的《失落的卫星》有完全不一样的文风，会讲饿罗斯话的大姐比刘更深入地参与了当地的生活，却写出了一种民族志似的抽离感