Another Day in Paradise: Front Line Stories from International Aid Workers

ISBN-13: 9781844070343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str.

Bergman, Carol

Opis

"Another Day in Paradise" is an anthology of first-person stories by international aid workers. Written by active aid workers and spanning the "hot spots" of the globe from Afghanistan to Cambodia, Rwanda to Vietnam and Ecuador to Bosnia, these stories tel

Spis treści

Foreword by John le Carre * Preface * Part One: Natural Disasters - Introduction * Another Day in Paradise * Awakening * Grandmother * Invincible * Part Two: War - Introduction * Surviving Genocide * My Bodyguard * My Testimony * The Tremor Within * Behind the Lines * What is Beautiful * The House of Prayer and Peace * Part Three: Fragile Peace - Camp - bo- dia * Letters Home * Out of Time * Appointed Rounds * Afterword * Acknowledgements * Contributors * Aid Agencies

O autorze

Carol Bergman, a journalist and instructor in the Writing Program at New York University, has published feature articles, essays, reviews and interviews in, amongst others, The Times, the New York Times, The Daily News Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written several books including the memoir Searching for Fritzi.