Wellcome Prize winner and National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon brings his sharp eye and fierce compassion to stories from all over the world
Andrew Solomon holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge; is a professor of psychology at Columbia University and President of PEN American Center; and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far from the Tree- Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards; and The Noonday Demon- An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. His TED talks have been viewed over 12 million times. A dual UK/US national, he lives in London and New York. www.andrewsolomon.com.
His voice and eye are always curious, never hurried; his sentences
unspool elegantly, and are sharply alive to social cadences and
cultural nuance... You can see him exploring and honing the
listening habits that led to that book on almost every page here...
Solomon lives with his subjects as long as he is able – searching
out the dissident artists of China and the Inuit of Greenland, 80%
of whom suffer from depression. In this way Solomon builds a
picture of the world we have inhabited in the last 25 years, seen
from its four corners.
*Observer*
Solomon unites human history around the world through his intimate,
personal accounts.
*Guardian*
He is an engaging guide – keen-eyed, self-reflective, shrewd,
humane – and these articles have a pleasing passion.
*Guardian*
Andrew Solomon is every bit as magnificent a traveler as he is a
writer - in fact, it's difficult at times to determine which is the
greater talent. Thankfully, the reader gets to experience both
gifts throughout the pages of this deeply impressive and profoundly
moving collection. Here is man whose curiosities are vast
(politics, art, food, psychology, anthropology), and whose
intellect is beautifully honed, but whose spirit is humble and
whose heart is enormous. 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*
This is a beautiful book, inspired by love of ‘away' and
uncertainty about ‘home,' a celebration of freedom which valuably
warns that freedom must sometimes be learned. Much more than
'travel writing,' it's a portrait of our world, made by someone who
has been there.
*Salman Rushdie*
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