Reading the World Confessions of a Literary Explorer

'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation. It wasn't easy. Many languages have next to nothing translated into English; there are tiny, tucked-away places where very little is written down; some governments don't like to let works of art escape their borders.Using Morgan's own quest as a starting point, Reading the World explores the vital questions of our time and how reading across borders might just help us answer them. 'Revelatory... While Morgan's research has a daunting range...there is a simple message: reading is a social activity, and we ought to share books across boundaries' Financial Times

ISBN:	9780099584643
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	29 Sep 2022
DEWEY:	809
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	334g
Height:	200mm
Width:	130mm
Spine width:	25mm

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