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A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
Doubleday
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
Featuring: Anjan Sundaram
288 pages
ISBN: 0385537751
EAN: 9780385537759
Kindle: B00DXKJ2I0
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard
Kapuciñski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a
dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of
the world’s unhappiest countries. In August 2005, Anjan Sundaram abandoned his path to a Yale
Ph.D. in mathematics to travel to the Democratic Republic of
the Congo and refashion himself as a journalist. He found a
country that was diseased, corrupt, and poised on the cusp
of war. When Sundaram is engaged as a “stringer” for the
Associated Press, he becomes a chronicler for a country he’s
just beginning to experience. Stringer is his searing
portrait of life in this broken, lawless place, an account
of the rocky education of a reporter. Sundaram describes the
grueling reality of daily existence in the Congo, intimately
outlining his own struggle to make sense of life in a world
where cab rides can end at gunpoint and rebel generals are
only a phone call away. As the city of Kinshasha descends
into anarchy after a contested election, Sundaram takes
shelter in a factory to file report after report even as
other journalists flee. Oscillating between anger and
loneliness and between melancholy and exhilaration, Stringer
completely transports us not only to the Congo—but to the
limits of sanity, reason, and experience.
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