Rather, Newtiz takes a down-to-Earth approach to the lives of ordinary people within cities, talking to many archaeologists and historians about current theories behind the destruction and abandonment of these cities. While the title suggests sensationalism, the content of the book is anything but. In their recent book, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Norton, 2021), journalist and science fiction author Annalee Newitz explores the life and death of four cities across three continents and many millennia. From before the volcanic eruption that shattered the Cycladic Island Thera, through the destructions at the end of the Bronze Age, and beyond, we know of many cities that were destroyed or abandoned throughout and before history. Readers of Ancient World Magazine will be familiar with the idea that cities die.
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Personal life įredrik Backman married Neda Shafti Backman in 2009. Following the success of his first book, Atria bought the rights to his other novels and had them translated into English. After his debut novel, A Man Called Ove, was translated into English, it remained on the best seller list for 42 weeks. Many of his books have been translated into English. The rights to his book Beartown were bought by Swedish production company, Filmlance, and are set to be adapted for television. The novel was adapted as a film which premiered on December 25, 2015, and again in 2023. Backman debuted as a novelist in 2012 with A Man Called Ove. He has been writing for the Swedish newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad and for the Swedish men's magazine, Moore Magazine. Biography īackman grew up in Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden. Backman's books have been published in more than twenty-five languages. The books were number one bestsellers in his home country of Sweden. He wrote A Man Called Ove (2012), Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013), Britt-Marie Was Here (2014), Beartown (2017), Us Against You (2018), Anxious People (2020), and The Winners (2022). My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorryįredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist. Its central argument is that, having asserted that the difficulties they faced constituted problems of knowledge, Conservative activists cast to the geographical and institutional margins of Scotland became 'banal' activists. This book ethnographically describes the processes, practices and relationships that Tory Party activists sought to enact during the 2003 Scottish and local government elections. The material consequences of this crisis included losses of financial and other resources, legitimacy and local knowledge for the Scottish Conservatives. It draws on fieldwork conducted in Dumfries and Galloway - a former stronghold for the Scottish Tories - to describe how senior Conservatives worked from the assumption that they had endured their own 'crisis' in representation. Available in paperback for the first time, it explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election. This highly readable book, is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as party political activism more generally. |