The Kindness of Strangers
- ISBN-10
- 1609387880
- ISBN-13
- 9781609387884
- Series
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Author
- Tom Lutz
Description
Once again, Tom Lutz takes us to seldom-traveled corners of the world—the small towns of western Madagascar, the terraced rice fields in northern Luzon, the scattered homesteads on the Mongolian steppe, the hilltop churches on Micronesian islands, the riverside docks of Dhaka, Ethiopian weddings in Gondar, funeral pyres in Nepal, traditionalist karaoke bars in Bhutan—to bring us random reports of human kindness. You may never visit these places, but Tom Lutz will do it for you. And while global media may serve up a steady diet of division, violence, oppression, hatred, and strife, The Kindness of Strangers shows that people the world over are much more likely to meet strangers with interest, empathy, welcome, and compassion.
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Other editions
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- 2019-09-03
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Summersdale
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