A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465076009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 321 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Finnish "human shield" professes no opinion of Saddam. The initial battles are with her official minders, always eager to steer her to sanctioned sites. Agent, Diane Spivey.7-city author tour.(Apr. . All rights reserved. While more ambitious narratives may provide more context, this is a valuable impressionistic portrait; it may lack the concentrated intimacy of The Bookseller of Kabul, but should backlist well as part of the tapestry of Iraq coverage. A missile that hit a market renders scenes of blood and torment "too gruesome to publish." Every American soldier the author meets mentions 9/11, but there is no one Iraqi voice—she finds men joyful and resentful as they watch the fall of Saddam's statue, and finally able to report atrocities they witnessed. 11)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a
The only woman in the world to cover both the fall of Kabul in 2001 and the bombings of Baghdad in 2003, Åsne Seierstad has redefined war reporting with her mesmerizing book.. In A Hundred and One Days, she introduces us to daily life under the constant threat of attackfirst from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Moving from the deafening silence of life under Hussein to the explosions that destroyed the power supply, the water supply, and security, Seierstad sets out to discover: What happens to people when the dam bursts? What do they choose to say when they can suddenly say what they like? What do they miss most when their world changes overnight?Displaying the novelist’
"A journalistic report" according to noemi. I thought it was a non fiction book and I found it a journalistic report nor much different from what you can find in a editorial article of a newspaper. I have enough with the daily news on this war.. M. S. Bowden said A Journey to the Heart of Baghdad. Written after her well-known 'The Bookseller of Kabul', Seierstad provides the reader with a compelling account of the run up to, course of, and post war situation in Iraq. The book is as much about the author herself as it is about the people of Iraq. Thus,. "One Brave Journalist" according to H. Proulx. Although this as not the caliber of Seierstad's THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL, this is still a strong piece of non-fiction. Seierstad is a Norwegian reporter who eventually ends up reporting for almost 8 news groups before, during, and after America's war in Iraq.