Asne Seierstad's The Angel of Grozny
Asne Seierstad's The Angel of Grozny reports on the lies and misinformation that surround the war in Chechnya, says Viv Groskop
Sunday March 9, 2008
The Observer
The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya
by Asne Seierstad
Virago £14.99, pp352In this ambitious account, Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, author of the non-fiction, international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, turns her attention to Chechnya. She first visited the country as a 24-year-old rookie reporter in 1994 and, having made her name and her fortune with the Kabul book, decided to return in 2006 and 2007 to see what had become of it. She wanted to turn her attention to a place the world seemed to have forgotten and to tell the stories of the many Chechens, children especially, who have known nothing but war their whole lives
Sunday March 9, 2008
The Observer
 |  Buy Angel of Grozny at the Guardian bookshop |
by Asne Seierstad
Virago £14.99, pp352In this ambitious account, Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, author of the non-fiction, international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, turns her attention to Chechnya. She first visited the country as a 24-year-old rookie reporter in 1994 and, having made her name and her fortune with the Kabul book, decided to return in 2006 and 2007 to see what had become of it. She wanted to turn her attention to a place the world seemed to have forgotten and to tell the stories of the many Chechens, children especially, who have known nothing but war their whole lives
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