No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

With an introduction by Arundhati Roy

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
Julian Aguon, Arundhati Roy
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Hardback
h222 x 144mm - 128pg
15 Sep 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781787334120
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A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster from Chamorro human rights lawyer and organiser Julian Aguon. ' A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit. ' - Alice Walker, author of The Color PurplePart memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon' s No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples. Aguon beautifully weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political commentary about matters ranging from nuclear weapons to global warming. Bearing witness and reckoning with the challenges of truth-telling in an era of rampant obfuscation, he culls from his own life experiences to illuminate a collective path out of the darkness. A powerful and bold new voice writing at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Aguon is entrenched in the struggles of the people of the Pacific who are fighting to liberate themselves from colonial rule, defend their sacred sites and obtain justice for generations of harm. In No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies, Aguon shares his wisdom and reflections on love, grief, joy and triumph, and extends an offer to join him in a hard-earned hope for a better world.
A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit. -- Alice Walker, author of THE COLOR PURPLE Julian Aguon speaks to the soul. His words - gentle, fierce, luminous and haunting - urge us to look deeper. To be kind, to be human. To cherish the earth. I am in love! -- Isabella Tree, author of WILDING The shortest BIG book I' ve ever read. . . strong and luminous as a needed beacon in a fog of disinformation and dismay, Julian Aguon with this small book emerges already a giant. -- Tommy Orange, author of THERE THERE No Country For Eight-Spot Butterflies broke my heart into anger and remade it into hope. Full of a fierce empathy, it is a brilliant, incandescent book. Julian Aguon shows us how love and beauty might guide us into a better, more equitable world. -- Sean Hewitt A breathtaking book and I mean it - this book took my breath away. No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is so alive with passion, wisdom and heart, you can almost feel its pulse. -- Junot Diaz, author of THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO It had me in its embrace like the oldest and dearest of friends. . . Overflowing with warmth and wisdom and defying all categorisation, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is philosophy, poetry, memoir, history and self-help for humanity. With bottomless love for his people and place, Aguon guides us through a portal to the Pacific, sharing deep insights earned from life on the existential knife' s edge. ' -- Naomi Klein, author of THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING and NO LOGO
Julian Aguon (Author) Julian Aguon is an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer from Guam. He is also the founder of Blue Ocean Law, a progressive firm that works at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice; and serves on the global advisory council of Progressive International.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787334120
Published: 15 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 144mm
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 255g
Pages: 128

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