Dear friends,
Pepe Escobar has just penned a new book, short and very original. Here is it’s description from the publisher (same as mine – Nimble Books):
A nomadic political analyst realizes he will soon become a grandfather. So he decides to write a digital letter to his grandson-to-be; an intangible legacy, encompassing some lessons he learned from life. The letter can only be “opened” in 2030, when the grandson will be a teenager in a world in turmoil. Beginning with Bob Dylan and touching on techno, Keats, Maserati, Siddhartha, Shakespeare, Blake, Borges, Xuanzang and scores of other legacies, the author shares his experience and wisdom in a deeply cultured and tremendously moving ode to the beauty and richness of past and future worlds. A wonderful gift for any seeker.
The book is short and an absolutely wonderful read and I highly recommend it to you all! Borges, Hesse and the Upanishads have always amongst my favorite reads. Pepe only begins with those, then he goes into a wild survey of the “the art of reading” which he says is “a branch of the art of living” (and I totally agree), but which is really the intellectual, moral and spiritual trail every one of us, seekers, follows in his/her life. As will Ayan, still currently in his mother’s womb, and who will be 15 in 2030 and to whom the entire book is addressed.
Wonderful stuff, wonderfully written!
You can get it on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/2030-Pepe-Escobar/dp/1608880354/
It comes as an ebook and a real paper book. Best get both!
The Saker
Love the guy an irrepressible and joyful dissident. Dissidents are almost always the best informed and he certainly lives up to that statement.
Just bought the book, both paperback and digital. Extremely original, thought provocative, deep, philosophical, you name it. I cannot wait to devour this gem.
We at the Saker blog were lucky this year: The Saker first book (also bought the Kindle edition and the hard cover). These are enough to keep us busy for the holiday season.
Thank you Saker, thank you Pepe. Two great minds, two great personalities.
Wow,
Saker being selfless again (you definitely don’t come across as a materialist). Here he is pluging someone else’s book (a worthy guy, Pepe, no doubt) instead of plugging his own.
Well I’m going to buy saker’s book first then I’m going to buy Pepe’s, fair is fair. I’ll be treating myself to several books for this coming Christmas season this book and Saker’s are on the treat list for me and for a select few that are aware enough to be able to absorb the content.
If you buy them together you’ll get a selflless discount on shipping.
@C I Eh?
First things first for me, got a budget and I spread out my purchases over each quarter (that’s just me, it’s just the way I buy stuff). We are on boundary of Q4-2015 and Q1-2016, so it won’t be long before the 2nd purchase.
Now it makes more sense for others to buy multiple items to save on shipping and I totally support that – it’s a good suggestion on your part.
Yes, and his recommending Pepe’s book is a selfless act both for the readers that will benefit and the author who wrote it.
BTW thanks for your excellent break down on the situation in Turkey, the donmeh/young-turks, and the key players in the Turkish “elite” that Putin has decided to take out. I use the term “elite” here (to describe Fidan, erdugan and his ilk) very reluctantly. The real elite in terms of merit and intelligence in Turkey are the secular nationalists, good people as far as I am concerned. I’ve worked some of them and they are brilliant, open-hearted and cultured people (exceptionally bright). It’s a shame how their years of efforts are being turned upside down by this closet Islamist mafia. There’s hope that some of those secular generals that erdogan tried to purge and imprison will organize a counter to AK.
Mirror mirror..
You are welcome!
I’m a 55’er and Pepe E. just writes what has been my own experience (albeit far from as exotic as his tale).
Reading on Kindle within 5 minutes for $3 — can’t beat that.
Some pages in and still engaged — well done Pete, this may well go down as a generational standard — A “Zen and the Art of Internet Journalism” or some such …
Here’s how I couched it for some friends and family:
Here Pepe E., writes a cosmic streaming from the ‘Graces’ now descending in his transition to grandparent hood.
He speaks as one of the educated and literate of our strange generation — that strange ‘gap-year’ group of the mid-1950’s betwixt the old 19-20th and the 20-21st centuries.
PE writes and articulates what many of us think and experience but only can barely express clearly. Here he lays out a few choice stepping stones on a life-long road journey that many of us ‘late boomers’ could only cross occasionally while on our own personal journeys of weaving together the ‘Domestic’ and ‘Quest’ etc.
I personally found some of these ‘graces descending’ with my own 6 grandchildren’s arrivals flowed into rather eclectic art forms
Well done Pepe E. At only $3 it is a good ebook gift for those who might want a reframing of their life’s time spent — or even some ‘insider’ insight for their own somewhat bemused kids, now young adults themselves, with their own millennial kids to guide into the 2030’s.
Now perhaps they can know a little better what the ???? was going on during those strange times — at least for some of us — while we played mom&dad to them etc!
I wish you, Saker, would show other sources than Amazon. I live still in the Seattle area and find Amazon really offensive because the way the treat their workers, and the way they want to ‘take over the world’ of publishing. I only buy books made of paper and each book has its own publisher. Start
showing the actual paper mills and printeries where these nice books come from, OK?
Jim, if you look back at Saker’s postings about his book – you can buy direct from the publisher at Nimble Books direct. And Pepe’s too.
The details are in the previous posts and buying information on the site. So no need to buy from Amazon……
What is your gripe, Jim of O?
That people in Seattle are not being treated as ‘exceptionals’ by a global company established in the USA? Why should people in Seattle get paid more than some ‘slave’ in an Asian/Indian backwater for doing essentially the same digital economy work? Check the law, shareholder’s demand it.
Secondly, for those of us who do not see value in cutting down trees and polluting waterways just so some folk can have nice clean white paper the wipe or read whatever they want — and especially those of us who do not live near the ‘center’ — the digital-download (e.g. via Amazon) in 5 minutes for a very low cost is just plain common sense compared to the cost and time delay of production and transportation of paper etc.