A review by bootlessdora
The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World by Tim Marshall

4.0

I liked this book, it made me think and it made me uncomfortable, it challenged some of my views and made me put myself in other people's positions. This book is not perfect but what book about current politics is? I think Tim Marshall does his best to stay objective and even though his opinions/stances are noticeable (how could they not be?)you can still separate what is fact from his thoughts. The book's lesson is that a lot of issues are more nuanced than we think and that we should be looking for solutions instead of blame and punishment. Of course, what this book is missing is the way the world got affected by Covid which of course strengthened every wall there is. Nobody could've predicted the way the world has changed now but the fact that a lot of the things the world is struggling with now were already in motion in 2018 and 2017 is eye-opening. Covid accelerated a lot of things and made them visible but they aren't really new.