The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation
Autor Declan Walshen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 sep 2020
He meets a crusading lawyer who risks her life to fight for society's most marginalised, taking on everyone including the powerful military establishment; an imperious chieftain spouting poetry at his desert fort; a roguish politician waging a mini-war against the Taliban; and a charismatic business tycoon who moves into politics and seems to be riding high - till he takes up the wrong cause. Lastly, Walsh meets a spy whose orders once involved following him, and who might finally be able to answer the question that haunts him: why the Pakistanis suddenly expelled him from their country.
Intimate and complex, unravelling the many mysteries of state and religion, this formidable book offers an arresting account of life in a country that, often as not, seems to be at war with itself.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408868461
ISBN-10: 1408868466
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408868466
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
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ofMaximum
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Notă biografică
Declan
Walsh
covered
Pakistan
for
over
a
decade,
for
theGuardianand
theNew
York
Times.The
Pakistani
authorities
expelled
him
in
2013,
citing
unspecified
"undesirable
activities".
Walsh
has
reported
from
sub-Saharan
Africa,
Afghanistan,
the
United
States
and
across
the
Middle
East.
He
lives
in
Cairo.
Recenzii
First-rate
reportage
.
Captivating
.
Walsh
is
a
wonderful
writer,
with
a
gift
for
sketching
an
impression
of
a
place,
time
and
ambience
with
a
few
brief
lines.
He
knows
how
to
interweave
travelogue
with
an
account
of
the
relentless
tensions
that
always
threaten
to
burst
through
each
vignette
in
the
book.
What
also
shines
through
is
the
relish
with
which
Walsh
throws
himself
into
the
far
corners
of
Pakistan,
into
crowds,
celebrations
and
rites,
with
a
drive
born
of
fascination
with
the
land
and
its
people
Walsh captures the heart of a country brutalised by years of military dictatorship, scarred by religious bigotry and crippled by conflicts that have left it prey to outside powers . Walsh's instinctive sympathy for those committed to making the best of a bad lot shines through . [Walsh] treats readers to some unforgettable profiles . Rarely have revelations about Pakistan made for such good reading
[A] thrilling, big-hearted book . [Walsh] plunges into the messy country beyond and threads the nation's recent history into the biographies of some of the extraordinary people he meets . If Walsh's guts take him places others have not reached, his prose - vigorous, cockeyed and clear - brings it home to the reader . A richly observed study of how humans respond to the extraordinary pressures of a sometimes-choking society; empathetic, but hard-nosed and never veering into hagiography
Clear-sighted and exhaustive, these dispatches paint a scrupulously layered portrait of a country that defies easy explanations
Declan Walsh describes, with intellectual power and cool elegance, a much-misunderstood country. All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read it
'An irresistible combination of storytelling panache and in-depth knowledge; Declan Walsh brings vividly to life characters and situations that illuminate some of the most significant phases of Pakistan's history
A wonderful book that sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan . Walsh has a rapier wit, a talent for skilfully sketched pen portraits and a sharp eye for tragedy, paradox and absurdity. WithThe Nine Lives of Pakistanhe has produced a beautifully, lightly, fluently written book that is as profoundly nuanced as it is sharply perceptive
Walsh captures the heart of a country brutalised by years of military dictatorship, scarred by religious bigotry and crippled by conflicts that have left it prey to outside powers . Walsh's instinctive sympathy for those committed to making the best of a bad lot shines through . [Walsh] treats readers to some unforgettable profiles . Rarely have revelations about Pakistan made for such good reading
[A] thrilling, big-hearted book . [Walsh] plunges into the messy country beyond and threads the nation's recent history into the biographies of some of the extraordinary people he meets . If Walsh's guts take him places others have not reached, his prose - vigorous, cockeyed and clear - brings it home to the reader . A richly observed study of how humans respond to the extraordinary pressures of a sometimes-choking society; empathetic, but hard-nosed and never veering into hagiography
Clear-sighted and exhaustive, these dispatches paint a scrupulously layered portrait of a country that defies easy explanations
Declan Walsh describes, with intellectual power and cool elegance, a much-misunderstood country. All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read it
'An irresistible combination of storytelling panache and in-depth knowledge; Declan Walsh brings vividly to life characters and situations that illuminate some of the most significant phases of Pakistan's history
A wonderful book that sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan . Walsh has a rapier wit, a talent for skilfully sketched pen portraits and a sharp eye for tragedy, paradox and absurdity. WithThe Nine Lives of Pakistanhe has produced a beautifully, lightly, fluently written book that is as profoundly nuanced as it is sharply perceptive