An Unexpected Light
20 July 2007Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan is widely acknowledged as the most influential contemporary work of Afghanistan. Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan’s isolation from the world, Jason Elliot’s uncannily prescient account of his winter journey through the country torn by civil war is as pertinent today as it was then.
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Details
20 July 2007496 pages
9780330371629Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'What raises the book to the level of a classic is its intensely personal meditation on the magic of unplanned adventure, of the pain and pleasure of pushing into the unknown. The whole book, like Elliot’s travels themselves, operated on this heightened level.The Times
Jason Elliot is that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places and this tale is a many-layered reconstruction of his experience . . . I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel’Doris Lessing
‘An Unexpected Light is often unexpectedly funny and constantly perceptive, but it is also profound’New York Times
