Bøger af Bob Shacochis

"Best known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Bob Shacochis began his writing career as a pioneering journalist and contributing editor for Outside magazine and Harper's. Kingdoms in the Air brings together the very best of Shacochis's culture and travel essays in one live-wire collection that spans his global adventures and his life passions; from surfing, to his obsession with the South American dorado, to the time he went bushwhacking in Mozambique. In the titular essay "Kingdoms," the longest work in the collection, Shacochis ventures to Nepal with his friend, the photographer Thomas Laird, who was the first foreigner to live in Nepal's kingdom of Mustang as the forbidden Shangri-la prepared to open its borders to trekkers and trade. When the two men return a decade after Laird first lived there, Shacochis observes in brilliantly evocative prose both the current cultural and political landscape of the country and the changes with which his friend has to reconcile. Replete with Shacochis's signature swagger, humor, and crystalline wisdom, Kingdoms in the Air is a majestic and essential collection from one of our most important writers."

"Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have "The Immaculate Invasion, " the masterpiece of the 1994 U.S. assault and occupation of Haiti."--James Zug, "Chicago Tribune."

A book about love, libido, and lamb, with seventy-five recipes by a writer well versed in the domestic dance between food and relationships

Shacochis' first book in ten years spans five decades and travels from Haiti to Croatia, Istanbul, and the US in an epic masterwork that traces a global lineage of political, cultural, and personal tumult.