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In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the 'fateful laws known as progress', a remote yet 'sensitive nerve centre of world politics' caught amid great powers in upheaval. In her writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate beauty of landscapes both internal and external, reflecting on the longings and loneliness of travel as well as its grace. Maillart's account of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a classic of travel literature, and Schwarzenbach's memoir rounds out the story of the adventure. 'Few of Schwarzenbach's own writings have been translated into English, and even fewer are available in print...Finally, we have the opportunity to read her: Seagull Books have reissued two recent and excellent translations of Schwarzenbach's literary travel writing. Death in Persia was only published in German in 1998, long after Schwarzenbach's death, and first published in English translation by Lucy Renner Jones in 2012. All the Roads Are Open, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, was first published as a full English collection in 2011. Together, they map Schwarzenbach's dual struggle to overcome her own inner conflicts and, somehow, to resist the fascism that overran Europe as she made her way to Afghanistan in 1939.' - Helen Finch, Times Literary Supplement 'All the Roads Are Open ...collects the wonderful newspaper articles Schwarzenbach wrote during the journey. "With our Afghan friends we felt as safe as in Abraham's bosom," she declares, although the cover photo of her - trousered, lanky, David Bowie with an Elroy Jetson haircut - will inspire readers today to wonder what all she might have left out.' - Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

Table of Contents:
Introduction A Note on the Text and Translation Part One: Mount Ararat     Balkan Borders     Therapia     Trebizond: Farewell to the Sea     Mount Ararat Part Two: The Steppe     The Steppe     The Prisoners     No Man's Land: Between Persia and Afghanistan Part Three: The Women of Kabul     Herat, 1 August 1939...     The Hind Kush Three Times     In the Garden of the Beautiful Girls of Qaisar     The Women of Kabul Part Four: The Bank of the Oxus      The Neighbouring Village     The Bank of the Oxus     The Potters of Istalif     The Grip to Ghazni Part Five: Two Women Alone in Afghanistan     Two Women Alone in Afghanistan     Chehel Sotun Part Six: Onward to Peshawar...     Onward to Peshawar...     Aden, a Morning Vision     The Trip Down the Suez Canal Text Sources Afterword: 'My existence in the exile of distant adventure'       Roger Perret

About the Author :
Annemarie Schwarzenbach (190842) was a writer, journalist, photographer and queer icon who worked periodically as an archaeologist. She wrote over 80 newspaper articles while traveling in Switzerland, the US, Portugal, the Congo and Morocco, and is also the author of Lyric Novella and two travel narratives: All the Roads Are Open and Death in Persia.

Review :
“Above all, [Schwarzenbach’s] discovery of the Orient was a personal one. But the author never loses sight of the historical and social context. . . . She shows no trace of colonialist arrogance. In fact, the pieces also reflect the experience of crisis, the loss of confidence which, in that decade, seized the long-arrogant culture of the West.” "Through lyrical prose and a keen sense of wonder, the long road to Afghanistan is never tedious. Complete with picturesque descriptions of passing mountains, fields, valleys, deserts and their enigmatic denizens, All the Roads Are Open still enchants more than 70 years after its conception." "All the Roads Are Open . . . collects the wonderful newspaper articles Schwarzenbach wrote during the journey. 'With our Afghan friends we felt as safe as in Abraham’s bosom,' she declares, although the cover photo of her—trousered, lanky, David Bowie with an Elroy Jetson haircut—will inspire readers today to wonder what all she might have left out." "Schwarzenbach’s book, while fragmented, showcases the specificity and talent of her writing. [. . .] The book offers a memorable account of discovery and self-exploration at a time when Nazism came knocking at Europe’s doors. Schwarzenbach’s fragile notes reject yesterday’s racism and intolerance, and instead offer an ode to individual freedom." “Few of Schwarzenbach’s own writings have been translated into English, and even fewer are available in print. Finally, we have the opportunity to read her: Seagull Books have reissued two recent and excellent translations of Schwarzenbach’s literary travel writing. Death in Persia was only published in German in 1998, long after Schwarzenbach’s death, and first published in English translation by Lucy Renner Jones in 2012. All the Roads Are Open, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, was first published as a full English collection in 2011. Together, they map Schwarzenbach’s dual struggle to overcome her own inner conflicts and, somehow, to resist the fascism that overran Europe as she made her way to Afghanistan in 1939.”


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857428226
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Series Title: The Seagull Library of German Literature
  • Sub Title: The Afghan Journey
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0857428225
  • Publisher Date: 11 May 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 172 gr


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