Éditeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Date & Lieu : 1997, New York |
Préface : | Pages : 356 |
Traduction : | ISBN : 0-374-10200-7 |
Langue : Anglais | Format : 160x235 mm |
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. 3922 | Thème : Politique |
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After such Knowleoge. What Forgiveness ? David FROMKIN |
Jonathan C. Randal has been celebrated for more than a quarter century for his trenchant reporting on war and civil disturbance in the Thrid World. Years ago, noting that Kurds - the largest ethnic group in the world without their own country - were involved in every major story he covered in Iran, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq, he decided to "throw a spotlight on a forgotten corner of the Middle east, as the old saying goes, take a nineteenth century kind of walking tour through a country that doesn't exist - three months in, three months out. A holyday fantasy, I should have known better." Several wars, poison-gas attacks, and mass migrations later, here is his firsthand report on Kurdistan - a shocking, tragic account of diplomacy and politics in the Middle East, and a gripping adventure story about being a war reporter in the 1990s. Throughout the Kurds' history, world powers have promised to help them achieve autonomy, and each time the Kurds have been betrayed. But they are also of betrayal : Randal,recording their talent for vehement internecine warfare and their gift for friendship, takes us behind the headlines to the inner story of power politics in the Middle East, and it is not a pretty one. His sympathetic knowledge of Kurdish history and his unparalelled access to Kurdish leaders and to diplomats, ministers, intelligence agents, warriors, and journalists make him the only writer able to get that story for us and discover the truth.
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now T. S. ELIOT, "Gerontion" |