A masterful blend of a travel journal, a notepad by the bedside in which one records his or her dreams, a political essay, a memoir of passing childhood, a literary review and many other art forms. Lindqvist presents the raise of racism in Europe as a scientific movement. He then shifts his gaze to the extermination of the black man, and in doing so, he shows us how utterly stupid, heartless and brutal the white man has been in the last 200 years.