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

Jagielski, Wojciech

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609803507 ISBN 13: 9781609803506

Verlag: Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2012

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1609803507
• ISBN 13: 9781609803506
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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