Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World - Hardcover

Fritz, Mark

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9780316294782: Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316294780 ISBN 13: 9780316294782

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1999

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Stories describing the plight and circumstances of refugees around the world include "Return of the Gypsies," "Fresh Orphans," "Lost in Transit," and "History Lesson"

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About the Author:

Mark Fritz won a Pulizer Prize for his reporting from Rwanda. He is currently a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, based in New York.

Review:

"....Street stories from the main theaters of the migrations of the 1990s. ...Putting faces on the problem, Fritz should engage anyone involved with the refugee issue. ...Sharp, contemporary journalism gives depth to the daily news images." -- Booklist, American Library Association, March 1, 1999

"...Lost On Earth is an enjoyable read, not least because of Fritz's eye for details." -- The Washington Monthly, April 1999

"Fritz has laced this easily read and absorbing book with vignettes of refugees' journeys across borders and into lands they had no idea they ever would see. So many news stories have passed before our eyes in the last decade that we need a book like this. Thanks to Yugoslavian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, Fritz's book could not be more timely." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 25, 1999

"It is a rare bit of luck these past 10 years that put a writer as gifted as Mark Fritz at most of our world's historic venues. ...a remarkable blend of history, analysis and humanity." -- Detroit Free Press, April 11, 1999

"Los Angeles Times correspondent Fritz presents a kaleidoscope portrait of the world's new homeless..." -- Publishers Weekly, Feb. 1, 1999

"These are not just touching stories of poor refugees caught in a world gone mad. They are stories that starkly demonstrate just how interdependent the world has become." -- St. Petersburg Times, April 4, 1999

"This is an unpretentious book, but it brings out lucidly the moral and political problems caused by one of mankind's greatest migratory upheavals. Lost on Earth is a series of vivid dispatches from this shadowland of outlanders, and at their best they are the premier reports about the contemporary refugee." -- Boston Globe, February 28, 1999

Lost on Earth, Mark Fritz's survey of the lives of contemporary refugees, reads like a volume of beautifully imagined short stories, and its addictive quality makes me wonder whether I loved it for the wrong reasons. Of course, they're the right reasons, too. In showing us the people usually reduced to terrible statistics ... he makes all those foreign tragedies that clot the opening pages of the newspaper immediate and real. And he isn't simply compassionate: Beyond the gift of empathy he has an invaluable knack for liking his troubled subjects. As in "Angela's Ashes," the sparkle of personality turns a book you might expect to be unrelentingly grim into one that you don't want to end. -- Salon, March 24, 1999

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