The Angel Of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

ISBN-13: 9781844083961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str.

Asne Seierstad

Opis

The conflict in Chechnya was the first war that Asne Seierstad covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya and discovers that though the world's attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, killing ten to 15 percent of the population and leaving a brutalised society with a particular toll on its children."

Recenzje

The best book in English about one of the world's most brutal and under-reported conflicts ... a fascinating, if often horrifying, read Christina Lamb, Sunday Times

O autorze

Åsne Seierstad was born in 1970 and studied Russian, Spanish and the History of Philosophy at Oslo University. An internationally bestselling author, she has also received numerous awards for her journalism. She has worked as a war correspondent across the world, including Russia, China, Iraq and Afghanistan. Her second book, The Bookseller of Kabul, has sold over two million copies and the paperback was in the Sunday Times top ten for over a year. Her other critically acclaimed works include A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal and The Angel of Grozny. Following the atrocities in Oslo and Utoya in July 2011, she attended the trial of Anders Breivik and then began work on One of Us, which became a European bestseller. All of Åsne Seierstad's books are published by Virago.