Jeffrey Gettleman

Love, Africa (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A page-turner. The portrait of Africa that emerges is disturbing, tender, and harsh.... A tremendous read. I couldn't put it down." -Abraham Verghese, New York Times-bestselling author of The Covenant of Water A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for theNew York Times,fulfilling a teenage dream. At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice. On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college, he went to East Africa-a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart. But around that same time he also fell in love with a fellow Cornell student-the brightest, classiest, most principled woman he'd ever met. To say they were opposites was an understatement. She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa. For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions. A sensually rendered coming-of-age story,Love, Africais a tale of passion, violence, far-flung adventure, tortuous long-distance relationships, screwing up, forgiveness, parenthood, and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places. "Aptly displays why [Gettleman's] a Pulitzer Prize winner and aNew York Timesbureau chief... there's a thrilling immediacy and attention to detail in Gettleman's writing that puts the reader right beside him.... An absolute must-read." -Booklist, starred review "Love, Africa offers a key to understanding humankind's past and future and a key to understanding our hearts." -Sheryl Sandberg

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062284112
• Artikelnr.: 47257940

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Gettleman won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from East Africa. He was the longest-serving East Africa bureau chief in the history of the New York Times, based in Kenya for more than a decade. His stories have appeared in National Geographic, Foreign Policy, GQ, and the New York Review of Books. A native of Evanston, Illinois, Gettleman studied philosophy at Cornell University and anthropology at the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.