Book description
In one of the great defining moments in human history, more people
now live in cities than in rural areas, and the effects of this
depopulation and the plummeting birthrate are being felt keenly
throughout Europe, which has the fastest-declining population in the
world. Tom Pow sets out to explore what this means in some of the most
rapidly vanishing areas of Europe. From Spain to Russia, he uses the
tools of his trade - travelogue, essay, story and poem - to make
connections, not only with what he encounters in numerous dying
villages, but to reflect on his own experiences of memory, identity
and loss. In Another World is an open book: not an argument, but an
invitation to remember, to reflect and to engage with one of the most
significant social issues affecting Europe today.
