The Lost Heart of Asia

Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron travels through Central Asia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, listening for what remains beneath the language of new beginnings. Conversations reveal bewilderment, endurance and the return of identities that decades of official ideology could never entirely erase. Across cities, deserts and mountain landscapes, older religious and cultural memories meet the uncertain present. His journey offers a reflective sense of place, attentive to the private lives behind the region’s immense historical transformations.

Central Asia; Landscape; Memory