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Homo Odyssey: Adventures of a World Traveler
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About Homo Odyssey: Adventures Of A World Traveler
Review "… a lot of beautiful writing about interesting places, with a few laugh out loud moments too." -- Out Magazine "Brent Meersman’s latest book is strong medicine … Part autobiography, part social theory, Meersman’s immersive study of sexual desire and the cultures that cloak and shape it, is a must for readers who like their truths hard-boiled … By turns ruthlessly unsentimental, oddly tender and vulnerable, it is a richly informative account of gay life and its evolution ― for sexual desire, as Meersman reminds us, morphs with the times … But to state that this book is the sole preserve of those interested in gay sex would be to diminish its power. Both self-critical and cruelly objective … Meersman demonstrates his pedigree as a renowned journalist. But because this is also a deeply personal account, it gives us an intimate grasp of what it means to be human today ... We are truly privileged to have Meersman as our guide … His superb, far-reaching account stands as an invaluable marker for a yearning, churning, confused, and desperate world. As 'a rite of passage to sexual Elysium', it is an intrepid and honest journey." -- Ashraf Jamal ― Business Day "These stories transcend the gay theme, they are about people making (or failing to make) their way in the world. Their essential human condition is easy to feel and identify with." -- Mike Nicol Product Description A gay Muslim in Berlin, a young gay man bewildered and lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a rent boy in Shanghai; a holiday romance in Mexico; a man from Dakar in a bathhouse in Paris; a love hotel in Tokyo; a darkroom in Rio; a hamam in Syria; the burning ghats on the Ganges; Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto and atheist; legal and illegal … blazing through 17 countries on six continents, “Homo Odyssey” is an upfront, edgy, often funny, travel memoir that will leave you seeing the world and yourself with different eyes. How do men sexually attracted to other men live in different parts of the world? How do they see themselves? How have they survived over the centuries, mostly in places hostile to them? About the Author Brent Meersman is a well known journalist, critic, columnist and author in South Africa. He is currently co-editor of the groundbreaking news site ― groundup.org.za. His first job was as a press photographer in Grahamstown in 1989. His first novel Primary Coloured (Human & Rousseau) was published in 2007, followed by Reports Before Daybreak (Umuzi/Random House) and Five Lives at Noon (Missing Ink, 2013). For 12 years he wrote for the national weekly, the Mail & Guardian. A compulsive traveller; at last count he'd been to 65 countries and travelled around all the continents, including the Antarctic. Out of these experiences came Homo Odyssey. It was translated into German and published in 2015 by Albino Verlag. His poetry collection Ophila and the Poet and other poems (Junket Press, 2010) includes poems that have appeared in New Contrast, New Contact, Botsotso, and Green Dragon. Short stories have appeared in Speak My Language (Little Brown, 2015) and What Love Is (Arcadia Books, London, 2011). His first published story was in The Invisible Ghetto (COSAW, 1993). He also wrote the libretto for Credo, an oratorio with music composed by Bongani Ndodana-Breen and performed by the Johannesburg Philharmonic and the Cape Town Philharmonic orchestras. He has a regular column with This is Africa and is co-editor of GroundUp.org.za. He has written extensively for New Africa Analysis magazine (London), reviewed work for the BBC and the Financial Times, and contributed to the Sunday Independent, Business Day, The Witness, Cape Times, Die Burger, The Weekender, The Wry Republic, Politicsweb, and The M&G Thought Leader. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction Sex between men is not the sole preserve of those who see themselves as ‘gay’ In coming to terms with my own sexuality, I developed an almost ant
