I just started reading Disordered World by Amin Maalouf. I'm only in chapter 2, but so far it is very depressing.
There's something for everyone: Confusion in Europe; the Arab world "sinking deeper into a pit of rage" from which it seems incapable of extricating itself, Sub-Saharan Africa "plagued by civil war, epidemics, sordid trafficking, widespread corruption, disintegrating institutions, mass unemployment, and despair"; Russia struggling to recover from seventy years of communism and the chaotic way it ended; and the United States, "having defeated its principal global adversary, finding itself engaged in a titanic enterprise which is wearing it down and leading it off course."
I think perennially melancholy Beet would love it.
Is this a novel or non fiction?
