Emma's War : Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
by Deborah Scroggins
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Collins, UK, 2003. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 389 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 2003. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has minor lean and minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Glamorous aid worker Emma McCune conformed to none of the stereotypes: although driven and committed to her work she was at least partially attracted to Africa because it enabled her to live in a style she could not achieve in Britain, and she was famous in East Africa for wearing mini-skirts and for her affairs with African men. Initially much admired, if also suspect for her social flair, she appalled the aid community with her marriage to a local warlord, who was deeply enmeshed in both rebellion and murder. She had fallen in love and, a rebel to the end, she insisted on following her feelings, even if it left her rejected by her fellow worker and in an ambiguous position - was she on the side of the refugees or the warmongers? This biography is also an evocation of the complexities and horrors of the Sudan, where Gordon of Khartoum lost his life and possibly his sanity campaigning against the slave trade, and where today life is so harsh that desperate families sell their children into slavery, hoping for a better life for the child, and hopeless children volunteer to be sold, grabbing at any opportunity for change, however slight, where boys grow up aspiring to be child soldiers and men dedicate their babies to war. Impotent among the dead and the dying, the well-educated, well-paid Western aid workers who try to impose order on this maelstrom are inevitably doomed to failure and, sometimes, are even complicit in creating human misery. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0007164998. ISBN/EAN: 9780007164998. Inventory No: 20070092.. 9780007164998
Synopsis
Deborah Scroggins has won six national journalism awards for her reporting from Sudan and the Middle East. For Emma’s War she was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award. A former correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , she has published articles in Granta , The Independent , Vogue , and Glamour . She lives in Atlanta.
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- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20070092
- Title
- Emma's War : Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
- Author
- Deborah Scroggins
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007164998
- ISBN 13
- 9780007164998
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Biography & Autobiography; Emma's War : Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
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