Walls: Travels Along the Barricades - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0864926634 ISBN 13 : 9780864926630

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The world s walls are supposed to be coming down. We speak of globalization, international markets and global villages; barriers to trade keep falling, and it is now possible to communicate instantly from nearly anywhere in the world. But just as these virtual walls come down, real walls rise. In this evocative blend of travel writing, history and politics, Marcello Di Cintio visits the world s most disputed edges to meet those who live alongside the razor wire, concrete and steel. Along the way he shares tea with refugees on the wrong side of Morocco s desert wall; he encounters illegal immigrants circumventing high-tech fencing around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla; he walks Arizona s migrant trails, visits fenced-in villages in India, and stands with those who protest against Israel s security barrier to understand what these structures say about those who build them, and how they influence the cultures that they pen in. Venturing beyond politics, he encounters the infiltrators who circumvent the walls, the artists who transform them, and the fenced-in ignored and forgotten people who live in their shadow.

The walls discussed are: 1. The Wall of Shame in the Western Sahara, built by the Morrocans in 1987 following their defeat by the Spanish. 2. A high-tech fence around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Meilla. 3. The Indo Bangladesh fence , erected in 1947. 4. The West Bank Wall. 5. The green line that separates the Greek from the Turkish-Cypriot quarters in Nicosia, the capital of Cypress, and Lefkosa, the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 6. The US-Mexico border. 7. The various barriers throughout Belfast. 8.The l Acadie fence in Montreal, erected as a wall built of chains in 1960.

 

Revue de presse :

'Yet another wonderful read from one of the best travel writers of his generation. In Walls, Marcello Di Cintio tells compelling and engrossing stories with his customary mix of vivid detail, a strong sense of history, a lovely sense of humour, and above all, a fascination with the human race in all its contradictions.' 

(Margaret MacMillan, author of Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed the World.)

'Award-winning Canadian travel writer blends history, travel writing and reportage. He writes beautifully.'

(The Bookseller)

'A challenging subject, fraught with political risk and one that could easily tempt a writer to platitudes and facile truisms.  Instead, Di Cintio disciplined himself to observe and reflect in depth, and to avoid easy conclusions. This is the kind of book that could only come from immersion in real places and among real people and in that regard, given the complex tensions that are spread along the world's walls, it's almost a miracle it ever got written. Di Cintio's prose is eloquent yet humble, occasionally poetic, and deeply-considered. Truly an exceptional work.'

--(Alberta Literary Awards)

À propos de cette édition

• ISBN 10: 0864926634
• ISBN 13: 9780864926630
• Reliure: Relié