Breakup - A Reporter's Marriage amid a Central African War

An award-winning journalist courageously reveals the personal cost of war reporting, vividly recalling his dangerous assignment and confronting its devastating impact on his family. ?After ten years reporting from central Africa, Anjan Sundaram is living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and new-born. But when preparations for genocide emerge in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty to his family, and his moral responsibility to expose the conflict. Soon he is travelling through the CAR, driven by a possible spy-discovering ransacked villages and locals fleeing imminent massacre, fielding offers of mined gold, and hearing of soldiers who steal schoolbooks for cigarette paper. When he refuses to return home, journeying instead into a rebel stronghold, he learns that there is no going back to the life he has left behind. Breakup illuminates the personal price paid by those bearing witness on the frontlines of humanitarian crimes across the globe. This brilliantly introspective, strikingly grounded account of perilous warzones and inner turmoil is sure to become a modern classic.

About the author

Anjan Sundaram is the author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship and Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo. His writing has also appeared in Granta, The Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph and Washington Post. 

Product details

• Authors: Anjan Sundaram, Sundaram Anjan
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781805260202
• ISBN: 978-1-80526-020-2
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews, Reportage & collected journalism, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Reportage, journalism or collected columns