This is Europe

Imagine Ballard and Houellebecq teaming up on a Grand Tour, and you will have some idea of just how vivid, urgent and unsettling this superbly written book is.Tom Holland

A kaleidoscope of bright human experience. Moving, poignant and compelling – I devoured this in a day.Jenny Kleeman, author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat

Deeply empathetic. Judah is an ace reporter with a novelist's love of character. He conjures people and place in a modern literary form he has made his own. There's no romance to this journey across Europe — but an abundance of story which will make you lurch between fascination, laughter and tears.Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Ben Judah has the ability to listen and retell, see and describe, feel and convey so that the reader believes they were there and experienced it all first hand. Through personal stories, told to him by an array of unlikely heroes, Judah paints another Europe with intense and dramatic detail – a Europe that you may not recognize, but that you will look for every day having read this book.Andrey Kurkov