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Tales of Two Planets
Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
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A collection of fiction, essays and poems by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Lauren Groff, and Arundhati Roy examining the true cost of the environmental crisis on the world's most vulnerable communities.
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.
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Tales of Two Planets, expertly curated by the beloved writer and editor John Freeman, builds upon his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas. In this new collection, Freeman gathers some of the most remarkable writers from around the globe to illuminate how the environmental crisis impacts the world's most vulnerable communities.
Over the last five years, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta, has launched Freeman's, an esteemed international literary magazine, and compiled two well-received anthologies focused on the issue of income inequality. One recurring theme in his work is the way climate change exacerbates existing inequalities, further devastating populations already in dire circumstances. Yet the challenges posed by climate change are not confined to less developed regions alone.
Spurred by discussions with writers and activists worldwide, Freeman has collaborated with some of today's most powerful storytellers, many originating from areas under severe strain, stretching from Burundi’s capital to Bangkok, Thailand. The contributors' responses have been extraordinary.
Margaret Atwood imagines a dystopian future in a compelling poem; Lauren Groff takes us to Florida, Edwidge Danticat to Haiti, Tahmima Anam to Bangladesh, and Yasmine El Rashidi to Egypt. Eka Kurniawan transports us to Indonesia, Chinelo Okparanta to Nigeria, and Anuradha Roy to the Himalayas, highlighting the impact of floods, dam building, and drought. This anthology offers a literary all-points bulletin through fiction, essays, poems, and reportage about the most critical crisis facing our planet today.
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ISBN: 9780143133926
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 August 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Plume
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 139.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales of Two Cities, an anthology of new writing about inequality in New York City. He is also the author of two collections of poems, Maps and The Park. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he teaches writing at New York University.
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