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Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful: Stories from Afghanistan by J Malcolm Garcia
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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Publication Date
- 2022-08-30
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781644212035
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN-10
164421203X
ISBN-13
9781644212035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321451325
Product Key Features
Book Title
Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful : Stories from Afghanistan
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Asia / Central Asia, Short Stories (Single Author), Military / Afghan War (2001-), Essays
Genre
Political Science, Fiction, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-047334
Reviews
"These extraordinary stories offer a rare and intimate view of America's longest conflict, and invite us to share the everyday joys and sufferings of war-weary Afghans. J Malcolm Garcia is the empathetic bridge our world needs, and an essential chronicler of our times."--Brian Castner, author of The Long Walk "J. Malcolm Garcia's impressive book of nonfiction short stories about extraordinary everyday people in Afghanistan is as gripping as any fiction I've read in years, full of plot twists, humor, sorrow, and grit. Part Dickens, part Studs Terkel, the book reveals its characters' lives with a refreshing candor I defy anyone not to relish." --Helen Benedict, author of Wolf Season , Sand Queen , and The Lonely Soldier "J. Malcolm Garcia's latest book exploring the back alleys and warrens of the American war in Afghanistan is profoundly relevant for Americans to read right now. While American leaders, social media trolls, and news pundits glorify street vigilantism and incite wider political violence, Garcia reminds us what war actually does to individuals, culture, and society. This isn't the Hollywood version, or a clever meme. In real war, no one wins, no one gets what they want, and everyone is tortured by the things they saw and did." --Ben Brody, author of Attention Servicemember "It takes a unique combination of moral seriousness, physical courage and wild honesty to bear witness to war's devastation and be able to convey to those who weren't there what it was like. Lucky for us, J. Malcolm Garcia is such a writer. His tremendous book about ordinary Afghans trying to endure two decades of conflict and occupation deserves a wide readership." Empire City and Youngblood
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
958.1047
Synopsis
Timely literary reporting from Afghanistan by one of our most important nonfiction writers includes insightful new writing since the US pull-out in 2021. "J. Malcolm Garcia has channeled the empathetic ear of Studs Terkel and the investigative skills of the best literary journalists ... These stories will remain in the heart and mind's eye forever." -Beth Taylor, author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss Reporting from Kabul and Kandahar between 2001 and 2015, J. Malcolm Garcia tells us what actually happened to the Afghan people as the conflict between first world nations and fundamentalists raged. In telling the stories of ordinary Afghans, Garcia shows the impact of years of occupation and war-and the sudden and harsh changes as new occupiers push in-on a people and their culture. Garcia meets Laila Haidary-everyone calls her "mother"-who, with no resources to speak of, gives addicts living on the street one month of detoxification and clean living, while at the same time sending her own children to make the perilous journey to Western Europe as best they can. And there is nine-year-old Ghani, who earns a few dollars a day collecting cans on the street to support his two brothers and sister now that his father has died of a brain tumor. There are the translators and fixers Garcia hires, who risk their lives working for foreigners against the warnings of the Taliban, and also the US soldiers who don't understand what their mission is here, and why they can't just do what they are trained to do, which is to seek out and kill the enemy. J. Malcolm Garcia has been compared to the Russian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, for how the voices of everyday people ring out in the stories he tells. Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful is an essential work of literature that documents one of the true disasters of our age, at the same time as it celebrates the human endurance and ingenuity of the Afghans we meet in these pages, and affirms the role journalists can play to make sure their stories can be heard., Timely literary reporting from Afghanistan by one of our most important nonfiction writers includes insightful new writing since the US pull-out in 2021. "J. Malcolm Garcia has channeled the empathetic ear of Studs Terkel and the investigative skills of the best literary journalists ... These stories will remain in the heart and mind's eye forever." -Beth Taylor, author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss Reporting from Kabul and Kandahar between 2001 and 2015, J. Malcolm Garcia tells us what actually happened to the Afghan people as the conflict between first world nations and fundamentalists raged. In telling the stories of ordinary Afghans, Garcia shows the impact of years of occupation and war--and the sudden and harsh changes as new occupiers push in--on a people and their culture. Garcia meets Laila Haidary--everyone calls her "mother"--who, with no resources to speak of, gives addicts living on the street one month of detoxification and clean living, while at the same time sending her own children to make the perilous journey to Western Europe as best they can. And there is nine-year-old Ghani, who earns a few dollars a day collecting cans on the street to support his two brothers and sister now that his father has died of a brain tumor. There are the translators and fixers Garcia hires, who risk their lives working for foreigners against the warnings of the Taliban, and also the US soldiers who don't understand what their mission is here, and why they can't just do what they are trained to do, which is to seek out and kill the enemy. J. Malcolm Garcia has been compared to the Russian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, for how the voices of everyday people ring out in the stories he tells. Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful is an essential work of literature that documents one of the true disasters of our age, at the same time as it celebrates the human endurance and ingenuity of the Afghans we meet in these pages, and affirms the role journalists can play to make sure their stories can be heard.
LC Classification Number
DS371.413.G47 2022
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