Along the Trenches

Navid Kermani , Tony Crawford 지음

Polity 2019년 11월 11일 출간

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Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today. In September 2016 the German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to discover this land and to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne through eastern Germany to the Baltics, and from there south to the Caucasus and to Isfahan in Iran, the home of his parents. Along the way he meets the citizens of Schwerin, in north-eastern Germany, who have gathered in a restaurant for coffee and cake at the invitation of the Alternative f r Deutschland, the far-right anti-immigration party, and listens to them talking about their fears of becoming losers in their own country, their interests overlooked while their government gives priority to helping refugees and asylum seekers among others; he travels to Paneriai, 10 kilometers from the centre of Vilnius in what is now Lithuania, where, in June 1941, thousands of Jews were rounded up by the SS and Lithuanian volunteer units, taken into the woods and shot; he drives through the lands around Chernobyl where hundreds of towns and villages once stood, with their schools and shops and community centres, and now only a handful of people remain, their houses torn down when they die. This beautifully written travel diary, enlivened by conversations with the people Kermani meets along the way, brings to life the tragic history of these troubled lands and shows how this history leaves its traces in the present. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with current affairs and with the events that have shaped, and continue to shape, the world in which we live today.

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Contents Cologne First Day: Schwerin Second Day: From Berlin to Wroc aw Third Day: Auschwitz Fourth Day: Cracow Fifth Day: From Cracow to Warsaw Sixth Day: Warsaw Seventh Day: Warsaw Eighth Day: From Warsaw to Masuria Ninth Day: Kaunas Tenth Day: Vilnius and Vicinity Eleventh Day: Via Paneriai to Minsk Twelfth Day: Minsk and Khatyn Thirteenth Day: Into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fourteenth Day: Kurapaty and Minsk Fifteenth Day: Into the Exclusion Zone East of Krasnapolle Sixteenth Day: From Minsk to Kiev Seventeenth Day: Kiev Eighteenth Day: From Kiev to Dnipro Nineteenth Day: To the Front in Donbas Twentieth Day: Via Mariupol to the Black Sea Twenty-first Day: Along the Black Sea to Odessa Twenty-second Day: Odessa Twenty-third Day: Leaving Odessa by Air Twenty-fourth Day: Via Moscow to Simferopol Twenty-fifth Day: Via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol Twenty-sixth Day: Along the Crimean Coast Twenty-seventh Day: From Crimea to the Russian Mainland Twenty-eighth Day: To Krasnodar Twenty-ninth Day: From Krasnodar to Grozny Thirtieth Day: Grozny Thirty-first Day: In the Chechen Mountains Thirty-second Day: From Grozny to Tbilisi Thirty-third Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fourth Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fifth Day: To Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian Cease-fire Line Thirty-sixth Day: From Tbilisi to Kakheti Thirty-seventh Day: From Kakheti to Azerbaijan Thirty-eighth Day: Along the Azeri-Armenian Cease-fire Line Thirty-ninth Day: By Night Train to Baku Fortieth Day: Baku Forty-first Day: Baku and Qobustan Forty-second Day: Leaving Baku by Air Forty-third Day: Yerevan Forty-fourth Day: Yerevan Forty-fifth Day: To Lake Sevan and On to Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-sixth Day: Through Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-seventh

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“A book so moving and so powerful that’s it’s worth taking 54 days over it, so that each day you can immerse yourself in a new world.”NRD “A breathtaking travel diary and a passionate plea for the diversity of cultures, for Europe and the beauty of stories.” Bayrischer Rundfunk “On almost every page there is something for the reader to think about, to learn, to marvel at.” Tages-Anzeiger “Kermani has succeeded in writing a stirring plea for Europe, one which confirms his place among the ranks of Germany’s most influential intellectuals.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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저자(글) Navid Kermani

Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association, Germany’s most prestigious cultural award.

저자(글) Tony Crawford