Description
Book SynopsisBen Judah is a Franco-British author and journalist. He has reported from across Europe with his writing on politics and society featuring widely, including in
The New York Times, The Financial Times and
Foreign Policy. His first book,
Fragile Empire, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. His second book,
This Is London, published by Picador, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016 and for the 2019 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage. He speaks English, French, Russian and Hebrew. He lives in New York City with his wife and cat.
Trade ReviewImagine Ballard and Houellebecq teaming up on a Grand Tour, and you will have some idea of just how
vivid, urgent and unsettling this superbly written book is. * Tom Holland *
A kaleidoscope of bright human experience.
Moving, poignant and compelling – I devoured this in a day. * Jenny Kleeman, author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat *
Deeply empathetic. Judah is an ace reporter with a novelist's love of character. He conjures people and place in a modern literary form he has made his own. There's no romance to this journey across Europe — but
an abundance of story which will make you lurch between fascination, laughter and tears. * Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia *
Ben Judah has the ability to listen and retell, see and describe, feel and convey so that the reader believes they were there and experienced it all first hand. Through personal stories, told to him by an array of unlikely heroes,
Judah paints another Europe with intense and dramatic detail – a Europe that you may not recognize, but that you will look for every day having read this book. * Andrey Kurkov *
