The Angel of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya

Zusatztext Impossible to ignore ... [An] important book Informationen zum Autor Åsne Seierstad was born in 1970 and studied Russian, Spanish and the History of Philosophy at Oslo University. An internationally bestselling author, she has also received numerous awards for her journalism. She has worked as a war correspondent across the world, including Russia, China, Iraq and Afghanistan. Her second book, The Bookseller of Kabul , has sold over two million copies and the paperback was in the Sunday Times top ten for over a year. Her other critically acclaimed works include A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal and The Angel of Grozny. Following the atrocities in Oslo and Utoya in July 2011, she attended the trial of Anders Breivik and then began work on One of Us , which became a European bestseller. All of Åsne Seierstad's books are published by Virago. Klappentext Asne Seierstad! bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL! began her writing career as a Moscow correspondent; the conflict in Chechnya was the first war she covered. Now ten years later! she returns to Chechnya and discovers that though the world's attention has moved on! the tragedy has continued! killing 10 to 15 per cent of the population and leaving a brutalised society - with a particular toll on its children - in its wake. THE ANGEL OF GROZNY is the story of the journeys Seierstad undertook in secrecy and disguise! and is another landmark book from this brave and brilliant writer. * 'I devoured this in a few hours - a powerful book of heartbreaking yet flamboyant reportage from a forgotten hell' Simon Sebag-Montefiore Zusammenfassung * 'I devoured this in a few hours - a powerful book of heartbreaking yet flamboyant reportage from a forgotten hell' Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Product details

• Authors: Asne Seierstad, Åsne Seierstad, x Asne Seierstad
• Assisted by: Dr Nadia Christensen (Translation), Nadia Christensen (Translation)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9781844083961
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-396-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 201 mm x 130 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Virago Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History; Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, TRAVEL / Russia, Travel writing, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, c 2000 to c 2009, Chechen Republic (Chechnya), Chechnya