The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands - Softcover

Hartley, Aidan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802125859 ISBN 13: 9780802125859

Verlag: Black Cat, 2016

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A finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize
A Publishers Weekly and Economist best book of the year

"The Zanzibar Chest is a many-legged hybrid. In part it is a wrenching account of African horrors, particularly those of Somalia and Rwanda . . . [it] is also a loving, often evocative account of East Africa where the author grew up . . . An unassailable mix of irony, vainglory, passionate sympathy and despair."--New York Times

"An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent's psychic wracking since Michael Herr's Dispatches, and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years."--Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

"A masterpiece."--Spectator (UK)

"A brilliant portrait, fond but candid, of the 'hacks' who chase dramatic stories in exotic and scary places--'the good times, the friendship, intensity, fear, sense of purpose, the sheer escapism of it all'--but declines at all turns to lapse into sentimentality."--Washington Post

"A tale of furious adrenaline."--Christian Science Monitor

"Slam-bang adventure and shimmering poetry. It is hilarious, orgiastically bawdy, poignantly romantic, gory as war itself, and populated with a census-sized number of vivid personalities. All that--plus informative and dreadfully prophetic."--Washington Times

"The Zanzibar Chest is a stunning piece of work. It will reside permanently in my memory. No one should dare say the word Africa without reading it."--Jim Harrison

"A lyrical, searing memoir. Out of the ashes of . . . misbegotten hopes, Hartley has fashioned a mesmerizing story of pain and loss."--Newsweek

"A startlingly refreshing perspective on the political, social, and cultural impact of British colonialism in Africa and Arabia . . . putting a contemporary face on historic colonialism with an accuracy and veracity seldom seen in Western critiques."--Booklist

"A profoundly moving masterpiece . . . This is much, much more than a book about war reporting. It is an extraordinary tapestry of friendships, love affairs, betrayals, and murders that finally come together to give us an intimate and epic portrait of Africa in the twentieth century."--Hossein Amini

"Thrillingly charged with an undercurrent of passion."--Salon

"A work of tremendous candor and vigor . . . a book that is impossible to forget."--Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man

"An outrageously brave and anguished heart disgorging the never-inert legacies of colonialism."--Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Reseña del editor:

In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him ?we never should have come.” Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family living in Africa. In The Zanzibar Chest, Hartley, a frontline reporter who covered the atrocities of 1990s Africa, embarks on a journey to unlock the mysteries and secrets of that legacy, and delivers a beautiful, sometimes harrowing memoir of intrepid young men cut down before their prime, of forbidden love and its fatal consequences, of family and history?and the collision of cultures that defined them both.

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• Verlag: Black Cat
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0802125859
• ISBN 13: 9780802125859
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480