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Adventures in Love and War
Random House
January 2002
On Sale: January 1, 2002
336 pages ISBN: 0375758682 EAN: 9780375758683 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only womanβand the only journalistβin a convoy of mujahideen, the rebel βfreedom fightersβ at the time. She had traveled there with a handsome but dangerously unpredictable Frenchman, and the interwoven stories of their relationship and the assignment set the pace for Shutterbabeβs six chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe, each linked to a man in Koganβs life at the time. From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, seamlessly blending her personal battlesβsexism, battery, life-threatening dangerβwith the historical onesβwars, revolution, unfathomable sufferingβit was her job to record.
 Media BuzzStudio 360 - November 18, 2006
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