Tales of Two Planets
Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
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In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced. In the course of this work, one major theme came up repeatedly: Climate change is making already dire inequalities much worse, devastating further the already devastated. But the problems of climate change are not restricted to those from the less developed world.
Galvanized by his conversations with writers and activists around the world, Freeman engaged with some of today's most eloquent storytellers, many of whom hail from the places under the most acute stress—from the capital of Burundi to Bangkok, Thailand. The response has been extraordinary. Margaret Atwood conjures with a dys¬topian future in a remarkable poem. Lauren Groff whisks us to Florida; Edwidge Danticat to Haiti; Tahmima Anam to Bangladesh; Yasmine El Rashidi to Egypt, while Eka Kurniawan brings us to Indonesia, Chinelo Okparanta to Nigeria, and Anuradha Roy to the Himalayas in the wake of floods, dam building, and drought. This is a literary all-points bulletin of fiction, essays, poems, and reportage about the most important crisis of our times.
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Creators
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John FreemanEditor
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Paul BoehmerNarrator
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David DeSantosNarrator
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Peter GanimNarrator
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Almarie GuerraNarrator
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Kim Mai GuestNarrator
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Deepti GuptaNarrator
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Dominic HoffmanNarrator
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Sonya MacariNarrator
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Sunil MalhotraNarrator
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Jorjeana MarieNarrator
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Bahni TurpinNarrator
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Roy VongtamaNarrator
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John FreemanNarrator
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Publisher
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Release date
August 4, 2020 -
Formats
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593168752
- File size: 281030 KB
- Duration: 09:45:28
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 1120
- Text Difficulty: 7-9
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Reviews
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John Freeman, formerly the editor of GRANTA, welcomes listeners to a collection of curated short works on climate change and economic inequality. The work tours a global economic divide that shows the poorest being hit hardest by climate change. Among Freeman's stops: Sierra Leone, where Bahni Turpin narrates with amusement and admiration as an escaped chimpanzee gains hero status; Bangkok, where Deepti Gupta describes the picturesque real estate pitches that entice well-to-do residents to live above the pollution; and Burundi, where Dominick Hoffman brings a personal note to Gael Faye's recollections of the Hutu-Tutsi war. Fiction is included, such as Sayaka Murata's "Survival," a vision of a future Japan that classifies residents by their likelihood of long life spans, narrated in a melancholy tone by Kim Mai Guest. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
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