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Desert Divers

Desert Divers

by Joan Tate (Translator), Sven Lindqvist (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

This book follows the author on a personal journey into the Sahara and examination into the racist assumptions of those writers who have gone before him. Taking as a metaphor the divers who cleaned out desert wells, Lindqvist drags to the surface the story of colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation which contaminate his boyhood idols.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 11 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 1862075077
ISBN 13: 9781862075078
Book Overview: Lindqvist's personal journey into the Sahara and the racist assumptions of those writers who have gone before him, dragging to the surface stories of colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation which contaminate his boyhood idols.

Media Reviews
'A polemical adventure in travel, criticism and autobiography, Desert Divers opens up a vast discursive territory. It is gripping from start to finish' Geoff Dyer 'A poem to the Sahara, and those whom it has obsessed; language as bare and hard as sand and gravel...Sensational' Guardian 'Sven Lindqvist is one of the most original and imaginative authors working at the end of the twentieth century' Richard Gott 'This is writing with a conscience that once again shows the enormous and provocative possibilities of the travel book' Sunday Times
Author Bio
Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America.