A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporting from the front lines of the war on terror SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'You'll be thinking about this book long after you turn the final page' Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre on 9/11, LA Times journalist Megan Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. She then travelled to other war ravaged countries of the ...
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A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporting from the front lines of the war on terror SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'You'll be thinking about this book long after you turn the final page' Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre on 9/11, LA Times journalist Megan Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. She then travelled to other war ravaged countries of the Middle East including Israel and Libya, witnessing and telling the stories of the changing Muslim world. Stack relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon; records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel; and one by one, marks the deaths and disappearance of those she interviews. Every Man in This Village is a Liar is a deeply human memoir about the wars of the twenty first century. Beautiful, savage and unsettling, it is an indispensable book of our times.
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Megan's concluding explanation of 'being there but being elsewhere' is what will, most tragically, see the Middle East continue to tear itself apart. What happens there -- what we distant from it actively or tacitly support --ensures that the hatred and fear is passed on generation to generation. Religion, persecution and war are all human constructs rooted in the human desire to have power, in whatever form. The results are most tragic for those least able to resist.
This is a beautifully written book about experiences that are anything but "beautiful". Meagn's use of language and through it her ability to bring us --- even drag us -- to the place and moment of which she writes gives us both a visual and emotional journey into the reality lived by these desperate people.
It is not a political treatise but is explosively political for the zealots on all sides. Ideally, our future leaders and decision makers should be exposed to this and works of its quality for both their literary and appreciation-of-reality development.
