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

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Erika Fatland ha publicado, entre otros, los exitosos libros de viajes Sovietistán (2019, Premio Wessel) y La frontera (2021, premio Bokblogg y considerado uno de los diez mejores libros de no ficción desde el año 2000 según el periódico Morgenbladet). Erika Fatland es antropóloga social y domina ocho idiomas. Sus libros se han publicado en veintitrés países. Reside habitualmente en Oslo, siempre que no esté viajando por el mundo.