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Aidan, Hartley.
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
[Текст] : Textbook / Hartley Aidan. - United States of America :
HarperPerennial, 2004. - 479 p. -
ISBN 1-59448-011-7 : Б.
ц.
Кл.слова (ненормированные):
A Memoir of
Love and War --
English --
The Zanzibar Chest
Аннотация: A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in
Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed
at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the
prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a
masterpiece of autobiographical journalism. Aidan Hartley, a
foreign correspondent, burned-out from the horror of covering the
terrifying micro wars of the 1990s, from Rwanda to Bosnia, seeks
solace and solitude in the remote mountains and deserts of southern
Arabia and the Yemen, following his father’s death. While there, he
finds himself on the trail of the tragic story of an old friend of
his father’s, who fell in love and was murdered in southern Arabia
fifty years ago. As the terrible events of the past unfold, Hartley
finds his own kind of deliverance. ‘The Zanzibar Chest’ is a
powerful story about a man witnessing and confronting extreme
violence and being broken down by it, and of a son trying to come
to terms with the death of a father whom he also saw as his best
friend. It charts not only a love affair between two people, but
also the British love affair with Arabia and the vast emptinesses
of the desert, which become a fitting metaphor for the emotional
and spiritual condition in which Hartley finds himself.
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