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A big swirling dream of a book. An autobiography of a nation and a person. To come across the author forming their ideas for the book, talking about their intention with the book, and over the past however many pages you realise how well they achieved what they set out to do: “To save something from the time where we will never be again.��.

To capture 60 years of a nation’s collective experience though the memory of one person living it. A self, transcended, a population distilled, and us getting to witness where they meet. History only exists where there are people together to experience it. A person’s history is what it is through living in that country at that time. A time in a country made up of millions of these people.