"Originally published in India by Penguin Books India, New Delhi" [2013]--Title page verso.
Anjan Sundaram Bücher
Anjan Sundaram ist ein preisgekrönter Journalist, dessen Werk tief in die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Journalismus und Autoritarismus eintaucht. Durch scharfsinnige Schreibe erforscht er die Herausforderungen, denen sich Reporter in diktatorischen Regimen gegenübersehen, und deckt die Zerbrechlichkeit der Wahrheit in gefährlichen Umgebungen auf. Sundarams Stil zeichnet sich durch seine Direktheit und die einfühlsame Darstellung menschlicher Geschichten im Zentrum politischer Umwälzungen aus. Seine Berichterstattung bietet eine kritische Perspektive auf die Geopolitik und einen dringenden Aufruf zur Wahrung der Pressefreiheit.
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.
