This book is important ... we, our rulers, and their stooges should read it ... it contains a message for our future
- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Here is a book which has come out of risk and years of thought
- John Berger,
This powerful book has haunted me for months
Sunday Times
Sven Lindqvist [was] one of the most original and imaginative authors working at the end of the twentieth century. Together with Bruce Chatwin and Claudio Magris, he has pioneered a genre where to travel in space is also to travel in time.
- Richard Gott,
Exemplary
Independent
This book should be school curriculum material
New Internationalist