Janine Di Giovanni

The Place At The End Of The World (eBook, ePUB)

Stories from the Frontline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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'Few writers can match her evocations of individual suffering in wartime.' - Newsweek

'A gifted and humane reporter with a novelist's eye for detail.' - Literary Review

'One of our generation's finest foreign correspondents.' - Daily Telegraph

'Di Giovanni is superb - an extraordinarily brave war correspondent and a wonderful writer as well.' - William Shawcross
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A collection of essays from the frontline from the acclaimed war correspondent

At the start of her career Janine di Giovanni was advised, 'Write about the small voices, the people who can't write about themselves.'

For over fifteen years, she has been doing exactly that. From a near-abandoned hospital in Chechnya to bombed-out Tora Bora in Afghanistan, from Saddam Hussein's derelict palace in Baghdad to the inner-city barrios of Kingston, Jamaica, di Giovanni has covered almost every embattled place in the world and the people caught in its midst. Like Myriem, who lives on the West Bank, but can no longer use her farm because it falls on the Israeli side of the security fence; and Sia, one of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone, who talks blithely of shedding her violent past; and Abdul, who was imprisoned by the Taliban at seventeen for not wearing a beard.

The pieces collected here begin with Algeria in 1998 and end with Iraq in 2005. They are vivid, raw and impassioned - and they make war terrifyingly real.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408833537
• Artikelnr.: 38284164

Autorenporträt

Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for 25 years. She has written seven books, including the critically acclaimed Madness Visible, The Place at the End of the World, and, most recently, a biography of the Magnum Photographer Eve Arnold. She is the Middle East Editor of Newsweek, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Granta and Harper's among many others. A frequent foreign policy analyst on British, American and French television, she has won many awards including Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award, the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Media Awards, and the Spear's Memoir of the Year Award for Ghosts by Daylight. She is a Fred Pakis scholar in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as the president of the jury of the Prix Bayeux for war reporters and is a media leader at the World Economic Forum, Davos. She lives in Paris with her son.

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