The World in a Selfie

A sophisticated, engaging, clever book -- Sabine Peters * Berliner Zeitung *
Provocative and entertaining -- Andrea Dernbach * Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin *
A work of intelligence and wit: the history and phenomenology of the tourist, from Hegel to Tripadvisor * La Repubblica *
Accumulates surprising and unsettling data, interpretations and testimonies, putting certainties we take for granted into crisis: the distinction between material and immaterial values, between commodities and fetishes, between modernity and post-modernity -- Giuliano Milani * Internazionale, Rome *
Chicago, America's megalopolis-as-metaphor, has found its leftward de Toqueville in Marco d'Eramo. His book is as rare as an Indian Head penny and as hard as truth. It is a book that Algren, Dreiser, Altgeld and Darrow would have acclaimed as 'on the button' -- Studs Terkel * for The Pig and the Skyscraper *
Fun and challenging, The World in a Selfie mixes the flavors of Mark Twain, Karl Marx, and theme parks to result in a real and welcome trip elsewhere. -- Meredith Grahl Counts * Foreword Reviews *
Marco D'Eramo deconstructs the politics of sightseeing, and the search for authenticity within it. * New York Times Book Review *
A sophisticated, engaging, clever book * Berliner Zeitung *
Surprising and unsettling, putting certainties we take for granted into crisis * Internazionale *
Provocative and entertaining * Der Tagesspiegel *
A work of intelligence and wit * la Repubblica *
The World in a Selfie is digressive, the chapters like a series of meditations that touch on various aspects of travel and tourism. -- Sophie Haigney * The New Republic *
Readable, well-researched and well-written. -- Mik Sabiers * Morning Star *
Thought-provoking . This is an intriguing book for sociologists and economists, as well as for serious travelers wishing to understand their impact as they once again move about the globe. -- Cindy Pauldine * Shelf Awareness (Starred Review) *
A bracing, provocative examination of an all-too-human pastime. -- Benjamin Shull * Wall Street Journal *
A fascinating journalistic approach to one the biggest influences on our economy and imaginations, The World in a Selfie spellbinds. A wonderful read for travelers and non-travelers in the new world of a pandemic. * Champagne Living *
The truth is that tourists have always been unpopular ... The root of the stigmatisation, argues Marco D'Eramo, is the resentment of rattrapage, one social class catching up with another. -- Tom Robbins * Financial Times *
A provocative take on the meanings of contemporary travel. -- Jim Gladstone * Passport Magazine *
In a summer when all our assumptions about travel and tourism are being called into question, this engrossing book, newly translated from Italian, is the ideal guide. -- Tom Robbins * Financial Times: Summer books of 2021 *
Andras's novel reaches for imaginative inner connections and syntheses across scale and time. He is no stranger to sociological contradiction, nor to psychological complexity. -- Jeffery R. Webber * Spectre *