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Zoroaster's Children: And Other Travels

Zoroaster's Children: And Other Travels

by Marius Kociejowski (Author)

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    Illustrated 2016

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Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize Zoroaster's Children brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing. A companion volume to last year's critically acclaimed The Pebble Chance, these essays, conceived somewhere between a waning moon and the nerves behind a flayed man's face, evince the deep absorption in a people and place which are the hallmark of great travel writers. Marius Kociejowski is the award-winning author of four collections of poetry, two celebrated travel memoirs, and a collection of his best essays, The Pebble Chance. He lives and works as a bookseller in London, England.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 175
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 12 Jan 2016
ISBN 10: 1771960442
ISBN 13: 9781771960441
Book Overview: * Co-op available. * Galleys available by request. * North American Print Campaign. General interest: Bookforum, The Atlantic, The New York Times, NYTBR, LA Times, Time, LARB, Harper's, Washington Post, New Yorker, National Geographic Trades: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal Canadian Interest: Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Quill & Quire, Canadian Notes and Queries, Winnipeg Free Press * Online and Social Media Campaign. Pitch interviews and reviews to The Rumpus, The A.V. Club, Electric Literature, The Millions, Largehearted Boy, Identity Theory, New Yorker's Book Bench, Bookslut, Shelf Awareness, Slate, Salon, Daily Beast's Book Bag, LARB, NYRB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Quarterly Conversation, Flavorwire, Buzzfeed. * North American TV & Radio Campaign. Pitch interviews and reviews to NPR. (Kociejowski has been called upon by European radio broadcast networks, including Vatican Radio, to comment on international affairs, especially as an expert on Syria.) * General Ebook Plan. Ebook available. Biblioasis and author websites.

Media Reviews
Praise for Zoroaster's Children Poet and travel writer Kociejowski journeys widely and writes to 'describe the world' and make deeper inquiries into human nature ... Highly recommended for its poetic presentation of experiences in different locations, this account is inspired by the past and a plethora of emotions. --Library Journal, Starred Review [Kociejowski is] one of the most evocative travel writers to emerge in the last decade ... He may well be peerless ... All the essays feature a laser-like focus on individuals and a relative indifference to their surroundings ... In city after city--Prague, Moscow, Toronto--Kociejowski does the same thing: encounters people, pays extraordinary attention to them, and captures them indelibly. --Maclean's Travel for Kociejowski is a metaphor for life -- movement toward an uncertain and possibly non-existent destination, without a map or compass. --Patrick Kurp, Anecdotal Evidence Praise for Marius Kociejowski Kociejowski draws on all the aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays ... [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm. --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Here the charm is deep, the splendour unlaboured; the colours of history, reckoned afresh, saturate singular people, in whom passion is lucid again...here is one who collects his extraordinary resources, and strides. --Christopher Middleton It is a testament to the power of this superb book that I felt not despondency, but ... elation. --Adam Thorpe, The Times Literary Supplement Treasures are revealed ... with a formidable erudition, and at their best they gleam with an enameled splendour. --Ken Babstock, The Globe and Mail Kociejowski writes beautifully ... unusual, poetic, and thought-provoking. --Library Journal
Author Bio
In addition to being an essayist and travel writer, Marius Kociejowski is the award-winning author of four collections of poetry, including The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool, and is the editor of Syria Through Writers' Eyes. He lives and works as a bookseller in London, England.