Emma's War
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375703775 (0375703772)
Publish date: February 10th 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
War,
Religion,
Politics,
Biography Memoir,
Islam
Interesting book - uses the biography of a young British woman who travels to South Sudan as a aid worker and then marries a warlord as a lens for the history of Sudan in the 1980s and 90s. While the choice of protagonist is cynical, or at least western-centric, the author's research and interviews ...