When Zlata's Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to "The Diary of Anne Frank," both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typica[...]
As a senior foreign correspondent for "The Times" of London, Janine di Giovanni was a firsthand witness to the brutal and protracted break-up of Yugoslavia. With unflinching sensitivity, Madness Visible""follows the arc of the wars in the Balkans through the experience of those caught up in them: so[...]
At the start of her career Janine di Giovanni was advised, 'Write about the small voices, the people who can't write about themselves.' For over fifteen years, she has been doing exactly that. From a near-abandoned hospital in Chechnya to bombed-out Tora Bora in Afghanistan, from Saddam Hussein's de[...]
Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later - after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that [...]
Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career--more than twenty years--in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.
Along the way she meets Bruno, a French rep[...]
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Memoarer om kärlek och krig
Janine di Giovanni, född i USA, är en av Europas mest erfarna och framgångsrika krigskorrespondenter. Hon har rapporterat från konflikter världen över, från den palestinska intifadan till kriget i Kosovo. I sina memoarer, Demoner i dagsljus, berättar h[...]
Memoarer om kärlek och krig
Janine di Giovanni, född i USA, är en av Europas mest erfarna och framgångsrika krigskorrespondenter. Hon har rapporterat från konflikter världen över, från den palestinska intifadan till kriget i Kosovo. I sina memoarer, Demoner i dagsljus, berättar ho[...]