Showing posts with label Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia. Show all posts

"There was no impulse I distrusted or admired more than that of exile. Distrust because of exile's narcissism, its modal insistence that, above all, location forged the content of one's conscience. Admired because of exile's bravery, its intransigence, the embrace hidden in its denunciation."

Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell