I Started a Trip ...

I started a trip around the world with 80 books. I left London, the next destination is Paris. Then Krakow, Venice, Florence, Cairo, Istanbul, Muscat, Congo, Nigeria, Tehran-Shiraz, Rose Desert, Calcutta, Kolkata, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Kyoto, West Coast of the East, Brazil, Columbia, Utopias, Dystopias, Heterotopies, Mexico Guatemala, Blowgun, Antilles and beyond, Epic Memories, Bar Harbor, The World on the Desert Island, New York. I will not reveal to you in the company of who I will travel, the authors, characters, and performers are accurately described in this book.

Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds ...