The Border - A Journey Around Russia : SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020

The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever entering Russia itself; a book about being the neighbour of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. It is a chronicle of the colourful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations, their cultures, their people, their landscapes.

Through her last three documentary books—one about terrorism in Beslan, one about the 2011 terror attacks in Norway and one about post-Soviet Central Asia—social anthropologist Erika Fatland has established herself as a sharp observer and an outstanding interviewer at the forefront of Nordic non-fiction. As National Geographic notes, she is "shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers," delivering what the Wall Street Journal calls "a hauntingly lyrical meditation to the contingencies of history" and the Washington Post praises as "an impressive mix of history, reportage and travel memoir."