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Author: Megan Stack
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.189kg
ISBN: 9781408810002
ISBN 10: 140881000
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 July 2011
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Every Man in This Village is a Liar is a courageous report from the front lines of the hostilities between the West and the Muslim world. Journalist Megan Stack sheds the customary pretenses of her profession to show us-with blistering eloquence and her own raw nerves laid bare-war's impact on the non-combatants who bear the brunt of its horrors. You'll be thinking about this book long after you turn the final page' Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air 'Stack's book may be the best account yet of the so-called War on Terror ' Independent 'There is hope. Stack has soul. Stack gets it. She feels in her gut and has a clarity of thought and boldness of expression that is rare, and delicious' Sam Kiley, The Times 'This is a brave and beautifully written book' Christina Lamb, Sunday Times
'Every Man in This Village is a Liar is a courageous report from the front lines of the hostilities between the West and the Muslim world. Journalist Megan Stack sheds the customary pretenses of her profession to show us-with blistering eloquence and her own raw nerves laid bare-war's impact on the non-combatants who bear the brunt of its horrors. You'll be thinking about this book long after you turn the final page' Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air 'Every Man in this Village is a Liar is an electrifying book by an extraordinary foreign correspondent. Megan Stack has braved the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, decoded the secrets of Israel and Egypt. She shows us what war and terror have done to humanity in the 21st century. Read it if you have the courage to care about your country, its allies and its enemies' Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes 'There is hope. Stack has soul. Stack gets it. She feels in her gut and has a clarity of thought and boldness of expression that is rare, and delicious' Sam Kiley, The Times 'This is a brave and beautifully written book' Christina Lamb, Sunday Times
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=13505
MEGAN STACK has reported on war, terrorism and political Islam from twenty-two countries since 2001. She was awarded the 2007 Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She is currently the Los Angeles Times Moscow bureau chief.
