Introduction: slugs in a jar / Tom Craig Armenia: paradise lost / DBC Pierre Assam: the nowhere clans / Hari Kunzru Burundi: in another life / Tracy Chevalier Cambodia: the paradox of progress / Jim Crace Chad: the intolerable and the unbearable / A.A. Gill Cali, Columbia: the return of death / Martin Amis Congo-Brazzarilla: quietly in hope / Joanne Harris Morocco: the pursuit of happiness / Ali Smith Palestine: how to manage the effects of a military attack / Daniel Day-Lewis Sierra Leone: cutting and tearing / by Minette Walters Sudan-Nuba: the geography of hope / Jon McGregor Uganda: the good doctors / Damon Galgut The Ukraine: are we leaving already? / Michel Faber Uzbekistan: disco shoes and a missing sea / Danny Boyle
