{"product_id":"outcast-by-oliver-basciano-9780571384310","title":"Outcast","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Shocking, moving and sensitive.' TLS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Uplifting.' THE TIMES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Fascinating.' SPECTATOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Remarkable.' LITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Gripping.' NATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of leprosy is the story of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a story of isolation and exclusion, of resilience and resistance, one which has permeated global cultures in myriad ways for thousands of years, dividing the world into the 'clean' and the 'unclean'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOliver Basciano's journey to demystify leprosy takes him from the Romanian border, the hinterlands of Brazil and the fringes of Siberia to the Japanese archipelago, Robben Island and the northern provinces of Mozambique. It reveals the image of mediaeval leprosy to be a nineteenth-century myth invented to justify gross mistreatment of patients, a blueprint used for further state-sanctioned stigma: colonialism, racism, religious and economic exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBasciano meets those living with leprosy today, those exiled to various leprosaria around the world and forced to find homes away from home; he hears stories of community and perseverance in the face of grave circumstances, of lives bound to each other through shared experience and how they have refused to be cast aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA work of outstanding empathy, \u003cem\u003eOutcast\u003c\/em\u003e shines new light on the human condition, asking: does a society's sense of itself always rely on ostracisation?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e - PHILIPPE SANDS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is impossible not to be moved by the lives unfolding in these pages, impossible not to be left transformed and enlightened.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eLEILA ABOULELA, WINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48022023667948,"sku":"9780571384310","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571384310-outcast.jpg?v=1785286948","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/outcast-by-oliver-basciano-9780571384310","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}