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Oliver Basciano
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780571384310
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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**A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR**

Encountering the last leprosarium in Europe and remote villages in Mozambique, moving through Siberian settlements and Brazil's hinterlands, Outcast travels the margins of society and charts the history of a misunderstood disease.

In doing so, it shines new light on the human condition, asking: does our sense of self always rely on the ostracisation of another?

'Shocking, moving and sensitive.' TLS
'Uplifting.' THE TIMES
'Fascinating.' SPECTATOR
'Remarkable.' LITERARY REVIEW
'Gripping.' NATURE

'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.'
PHILIPPE SANDS

'It is impossible not to be moved by the lives unfolding in these pages, impossible not to be left transformed and enlightened. '
LEILA ABOULELA

WINNER OF THE 2023 RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD
About Oliver Basciano
Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, The White Review and Times Literary Supplement; he has contributed to programming on BBC Radio 4 and is Editor-at-Large at ArtReview. In 2018 he was a judge for the Turner Prize. Outcast is his first book; he was the recipient of the 2023 RSL Giles St Aubyn Award, awarded for debut works of non-fiction.

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