{"product_id":"outcast-9780571384303","title":"Outcast","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA singular, compassionate history of humanity, told through the lens of a misunderstood disease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e''Superb.'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Fascinating.'' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Remarkable.'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Shocking, moving and sensitive.'' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Uplifting.'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrippingly and humanely recounted.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePHILIPPE SANDS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''It is impossible not to be moved by the lives unfolding in these pages, impossible not to be left transformed and enlightened. ''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLEILA ABOULELA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of leprosy is the story of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story of isolation and exclusion, of resilience and resistance, one which has permeated global cultures in myriad ways for thousands of years, dividing the world into the clean' and the unclean'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Basciano's journey to demystify leprosy takes him from the Romanian border, the hinterlands of Brazil and the fringes of Siberia to the Japanese archipelago, Robben Island and the northern provinces of Mozambique. It reveals the image of medieval leprosy to be a nineteenth-century myth invented to justify gross mistreatment of patients, a blueprint used for further state-sanctioned stigma: colonialism and racism, religious and economic exploitation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasciano meets those living with leprosy today, those exiled to various leprosaria around the world and forced to find homes away from home; he hears stories of community and perseverance in the face of grave circumstances, of lives bound to each other through shared experience and a refusal to be cast aside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of outstanding empathy, \u003ci\u003eOutcast \u003c\/i\u003eshines new light on the human condition, asking: does a society's sense of itself always rely on ostracisation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A new kind of travel book  across continents and, more importantly, across the partitions that separate the healthy from the damned  \u003ci\u003eOutcast\u003c\/i\u003e is a revisionist history that makes you realise, when you turn its last page, how differently you look at the world than you did when you first cracked its spine.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBENJAMIN MOSER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018308878679,"sku":"9780571384303","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571384303.jpg?v=1750776376","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/outcast-9780571384303","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}