This is Europe
- Author Ben Judah
- Narrator Dan Connolly
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 13 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Migration, immigration and emigration, Poverty and precarity, Racism and racial discrimination, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Society and Social Sciences, Travel and holiday, Travel writing.
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What to expect
A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023
'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted waters, and risk life itself in search of safety and a new start?
In a series of vivid but always empathetic portraits of other people’s lives, journalist Ben Judah invites us to meet them. Drawn from hours of painstaking interviews, these vital stories reveal a vibrant continent which has been transformed by diversity, migration, the internet, climate change, Covid, war and the quest for freedom.
Laid dramatically bare, it may not always be a Europe we recognize – but this is Europe.
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'An astonishing achievement' - Evening Standard
'Brilliantly told . . . highly readable' - The Times
Critics Review
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Thrilling, first-hand tales that explore the danger and ambitions of life in Europe.
The Financial Times, A Book of the Year 2023 -
Imagine Ballard and Houellebecq teaming up on a Grand Tour, and you will have some idea of just how vivid, urgent and unsettling this superbly written book is.
Tom Holland -
Unflinching . . . a powerful piece of reportage.
The Guardian -
Deeply empathetic. Judah is an ace reporter with a novelist’s love of character. He conjures people and place in a modern literary form he has made his own. There’s no romance to this journey across Europe — but an abundance of story which will make you lurch between fascination, laughter and tears.
Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia -
Makes you expand the boundaries of your sympathies and your understanding. It’s an astonishing achievement.
Evening Standard -
An extraordinary series of interviews.
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