Soldiers Of Light

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Bergner is an acclaimed journalist. Based in Manhattan, he has travelled throughout Africa, from Liberia to Sudan, and is a contributor to Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker. Soldiers of Light won an Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. It has recently been longlisted for the Lettres Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. Klappentext Travels into the heart of Sierra Leone! a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people the author encountered in a realm of fire and jungle as they rebuild their lives: Lamin! who lost his hands to save his daughter; Komba! child soldier and sometime cannibal; Neall Ellis! the mercenary pilot with a conscience; and more. Zusammenfassung In this moving and unforgettable narrative journalist Daniel Bergner travels into the heart of Sierra Leone, a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people he encounters in a realm of fire and jungle as they rebuild their lives: Lamin, who lost his hands to save his daughter; Komba, child soldier and sometime cannibal; Neall Ellis, the mercenary pilot with a conscience; Valentine Strasser the embittered ex-dictator; and the Western outsiders trying to save a land of startling beauty and brutality. Shocking, often heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful, Soldiers of Light is a story of survival and a haunting work of literary reportage.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Bergner, Bergner Daniel
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2005
• EAN: 9780141015996
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101599-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Sierra Leone, military history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999