Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far
East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus crossing the Caspian Ocean and
the Black Sea along the way. The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its
author ever entering Russia itself a book about being the neighbour of that mighty expanding
empire throughout history. It is a chronicle of the colourful exciting tragic and often
unbelievable histories of these bordering nations their cultures their people their
landscapes. Through her last three documentary books - one about terrorism in Beslan one about
the 2011 terror attacks in Norway and one about post-Soviet Central Asia - social
anthropologist Erika Fatland has established herself as a sharp observer and an outstanding
interviewer at the forefront of Nordic non-fiction.
