The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army - Tapa blanda

Jagielski, Wojciech

 
9781609803506: The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army
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ISBN 10: 1609803507 ISBN 13: 9781609803506
Editorial: Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2012

Sinopsis

Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord&;s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years, the civil society was almost completely destroyed by the LRA, itself made up almost entirely of kidnapped children. Piecing together what has been broken is proving to be a nearly impossible task.

Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski inserts himself into this hellish landscape and finds a way to speak of these children and their wounded world. In The Night Wanderers, Jagielski shows his readers the horror of children who have been abducted from their homes and forced to kill their own family members; children who, even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of their own acts of murder on their young shoulders. Jagielski portrays Uganda through their eyes as well as his own. Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jagielski digs himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and emerges with a compassionate, incisive, painful, magisterial account of a world that is just starting to pull itself out of the horrors of war. The original Polish edition of The Night Wanderers is shortlisted for the Nike Prize, considered to be the most prestigious literary award in Poland.

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Acerca del autor

Formerly a reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland&;s first and biggest independent daily, WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI has been witness to some of the most important political events of the end of the twentieth century. He is the recipient of several of Poland&;s most prestigious awards for journalism, including a Bene Merito honorary decoration from the Polish government and the Dariusz Fikus award for excellence in journalism. Seen by many as the literary heir to Ryszard Kapuściński, he is the author of several books of in-depth reportage, including Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, which won Italy&;s Letterature dal Fronte Award. Arguably Poland&;s best-known contemporary non-fiction writer, Jagielski lives outside Warsaw.

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Editorial
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1609803507
ISBN 13 
9781609803506
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781908699084: The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army [Idioma Inglés]

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1908699086 ISBN 13:  9781908699084
Editorial: Old Street Publishing, 2012
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