Book of the Year, The Royal African Society (UK)
In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuœciński and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world’s unhappiest countries.
In August 2005, Anjan Sundaram abandoned his path to a Yale Ph.D. in mathematics to travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and refashion himself as a journalist. He found a country that was diseased, corrupt, and poised on the cusp of war. When Sundaram is engaged as a “stringer” for the Associated Press, he becomes a chronicler for a country he’s just beginning to experience.Stringer is his searing portrait of life in this broken, lawless place, an account of the rocky education of a reporter. Sundaram describes the grueling reality of daily existence in the Congo, intimately outlining his own struggle to make sense of life in a world where cab rides can end at gunpoint and rebel generals are only a phone call away. As the city of Kinshasha descends into anarchy after a contested election, Sundaram takes shelter in a factory to file report after report even as other journalists flee. Oscillating between anger and loneliness and between melancholy and exhilaration,Stringer completely transports us not only to the Congo—but to the limits of sanity, reason, and experience.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has reported from Africa and the Middle East forThe New York Times and the Associated Press. His writing has also appeared inForeign Policy, Fortune, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, theChicago Tribune, The Telegraph, The Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, and theHuffington Post. He has been interviewed by the BBC World Service and Radio France Internationale for his analysis of the conflict in Congo. He received a Reuters journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on Pygmy tribes in Congo’s rain forest. He currently lives in Kigali, Rwanda, with his wife.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Spese di spedizione:
EUR 3,73
In U.S.A.
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Codice articolo Holz_New_0345806328
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Codice articolo think0345806328
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. New. Codice articolo Wizard0345806328
Descrizione libro Condizione: new. Codice articolo FrontCover0345806328
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Codice articolo GoldenDragon0345806328