The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
International best-selling journalist and author Åsne Seierstad returns from her most harrowing and dangerous journey yet—this time into the rarely glimpsed, strife-torn region of Chechnya.
International best-selling journalist and author Åsne Seierstad returns from her most harrowing and dangerous journey yet—this time into the rarely glimpsed, strife-torn region of Chechnya.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780465019496 (0465019498)
ASIN: 9780465019496
Publish date: 25-05-2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Cultural,
Journalism,
War,
Religion,
Politics,
Russia,
Islam
I wish more American reporting was like this book. Yes, I know Seirstad is from Norway but I can wish.This is a good luck at how war effects and affects society on a micro and macro level. The focus is a married couple who have taken in orphans, but Seierstad focuses on other families as well. Th...
From the bestselling author of the - extremely overrated - "Bookseller of Kabul", comes this book about Chechnya."The Angel of Grozny" is much better than what Seierstad wrote (and thought to see) about life in Kabul, but is still affected by the same cons.Here we have a young and undoubtedly talent...
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