Lawrence Millman – At the End of the World
Lawrence Millman – At the End of the World
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At the End of the World is the heartbreaking account of a series of obscure murders in the remote Belcher Islands and the ludicrous trial that followed It is also an elegiac and unsentimental lamentation for a now dying way of life on the northern perimeter of our planet where the Inuit people have always resided In addition it is a prophetic admonition of the dehumanization and imminent destruction of what s left of our own culture s humanity not to mention the natural world At the End of the World is a brilliant and original book by one of the boldest and most visionary writers of our era or any other At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941 Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or in this instance a meteor shower At the same time the book is a warning cry against the destruction of what s left of our culture s humanity along the destruction of the natural world Has technology deprived us of our eyes the author asks Has it deprived the world of birds beasts and flowers At the End of the World is a brilliant and original book by one of the boldest writers of our era.
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