"Originally published in India by Penguin Books India, New Delhi" [2013]--Title page verso.
Anjan Sundaram Libros
Anjan Sundaram es un periodista galardonado cuyo trabajo profundiza en la intrincada relación entre el periodismo y el autoritarismo. A través de una escritura incisiva, explora los desafíos que enfrentan los reporteros en regímenes dictatoriales, revelando la fragilidad de la verdad en entornos peligrosos. El estilo de Sundaram se caracteriza por su franqueza y su representación empática de las historias humanas en el centro de la agitación política. Su reportaje ofrece una lente crítica sobre la geopolítica y un llamado urgente para la preservación de la libertad de prensa.
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.
