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Ghosts By Daylight: A Memoir Of War And LoveStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionJanine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later - after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had passed between them - they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together. The remnants of their separate lives, now left behind, are tentatively unpacked into their shared apartment on the Right Bank: Bruno's heavy blanket from Ethiopia, a set of long feathered arrows from Brazil, an ash tray stolen from a hotel in Algeria, and Janine's flak-jacket and canvas boots, still full of sand from the Western Desert in Iraq. But having met in another lifetime - in another world - ordinary, civilian life doesn't come easily. War has become part of them: it had brought them together, and, though both are damaged by it, neither can quite leave it behind. Promotion infoFrom award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni a scorching memoir of love and loss Reviews'Janine di Giovanni writes with unblinking courage about war, death, marriage, motherhood, loss, love, redemption, fear - indeed, about all the world's most pressing risks and dangers ... Her writing here (as ever in her remarkable career) is a great and important achievement' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Gripping and brilliantly done' The Times 'A vivid, heartfelt book that shows the extremes of life lived to the full' Tatler 'Unashamedly romantic, and combining quiet reflection with pacy narrative, di Giovanni looks at love with the same clear eye she brings to war' Economist Author descriptionJanine di Giovanni is senior foreign correspondent for The Times and contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She has won Granada Television's 'Foreign Correspondent of the Year' award, the National Magazine Award and two Amnesty International Media Awards. She is the author of four books, Against the Stranger, The Quick and the Dead, Madness Visible and The Place at the End of the World. Janine di Giovanni lives in Paris. |