Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change Audiobook (Free)

Through the winner of the National Book Award and the Country wide Books Critics’ Circle Award-and probably one of the most original thinkers of our time-“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial By far collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).

By far chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about locations undergoing seismic shifts-political, cultural, and religious. From his stint within the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he became a member of performers in resisting the coup whose failing ended the about Far and Away: Reporting through the Brink of Switch Soviet Union, his 2002 accounts of the rebirth of lifestyle in Afghanistan following fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of the Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it gradually, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many various other stories of profound upheaval, this book offers a unique windows onto the very idea of cultural change. With his personal brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are modified when governments alter.

A journalist and essayist of remarkable conception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of the cultures. Varying across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are outstanding geopolitical travelogues that also comprise an extremely personal and reflective continue of the Country wide Reserve Award winner’s globe-trotting travels” (Elle). By far takes a wonderful journey into the center of extraordinarily diverse encounters: “You won’t only understand the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eye, you’ll also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).