Anti-tourism

Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder

"The anti-tourist does not visit places that are in any way desirable. The anti-tourist eschews comfort. The anti-tourist embraces hunger and hallucinations and shit hotels."

This book kicks "A year in provence" and all those romanticised travel books into touch as Kalder goes to places where the locals laugh when they hear is a tourist. Because no tourist ever comes to Tartarstan.

This book is so absorbing, it has 2 bookmarks in it because two of us are reading it at once ...

"Going Nowhere" - The Guardian reviews "Lost Cosmonaut"