Reseña del libro "The Absent Hand: Reimagining our American Landscape (en Inglés)"
"Unusual and engaging . . . A subjective, Whitmanesque meditation on the way we live today . . . What makes this book compelling is not so much where the author goes, but how she reflects on what she sees when she gets there . . . Her wonderfully trenchant observations cast new light on the everyday." Witold Rybczynski, The Wall Street JournalFollowing her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebalds work and others of Rebecca Solnits, but it is Lessards singular talent to combine this profound book-length mosaica blend of historical travelogue, reportorial probing, philosophical meditation, and prose poeminto a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention.This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundingscities, countryside, and sprawlexploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched.
