With books you can travel to places you would otherwise never go. This time: Chechnya. What drives Åsne Seierstad, a 24-year-old newly graduated journalist, to hitchhike on a military plane from Moscow to the war in Chechnya? Perhaps more foolhardy than brave, but it is fascinating!
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This is the story of the journey to wartime Chechnya, and the return visit 10 years later. A story of a people who have been deported, vilified and repeatedly stripped of everything.
The book introduces us to Chechen families whose husbands have been abducted, the parents of young Chechen terrorists (in the Russian theatre), the parents of young Russian racists who hate Chechens, the Chechen president who organises ice-cream events in his own honour, and the angel of Grozny - the woman who takes care of Chechnya's orphans without asking for anything in return. A lot of history, a lot of pain, not a single boring page.
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Ninny says:
Thanks for the tip! How will I remember it next time I go looking for a good book????
18 November 2010 - 9:50
Katarina in the Philippines says:
Thank you for the book tip. I am currently ordering books for my Christmas stay in Sweden.
18 November 2010 - 10:07
Alexandra says:
Oh how I love her. Have read many of her books. 🙂
18 November 2010 - 16:01