The truth that Nivat constructs in The Wake of War is .
. . compelling. Nivat is perhaps best known for her reporting on
Chechnya, where she disguised herself as a Chechen woman to evade a
ban on journalists. Her new work is no less courageous.--Tom
Montgomery-Fate, Boston Globe
"The wars in which the United States has been engaged since 911
seem distant and almost unreal. This book provides us with vivid
firsthand voices of ordinary people from these two devastated
battlefields . . . A
內容簡介:
In the spring of 2003, acclaimed journalist Anne Nivat set off
from Tajikistan on a six-month journey through the aftermath of the
American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Nivat
felt compelled to meet and write about the lives of everyday
people, whom she allows to speak in their own voices, in their own
words--words of hope, sadness, anger, and, above all, the
uncertainty that fills their everyday lives. Her new Preface for
the paperback edition looks at the situation in Iraq today.
關於作者:
Anne Nivat is an award-winning journalist and author. Her
first book, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of
the War in Chechnya, won the Albert Londres Prize in 2000. Also the
author of The View from the Vysotka, Nivat lives in France and
travels extensively.
目錄:
Introduction
PART I
In Iraq, after the U.S. Military Victory of April 2003
THE PROSCENIUM
EN ROUTE TO ERBIL
A KURDISH FAMILY
A YOUNG LEADER
THE MAJOR HOLIDAYS
A TURKOMAN FAMILY
EN ROUTE TO BAGHDAD
BAGHDAD
A DOMINICAN FRIAR
A RESISTANCE FIGHTER
AND A FORMER FEDAYEE
IN THE "SUNNI TRIANGLE"
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