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The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
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Author
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Asne Seierstad. Nadia Christensen, trans.
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Basic Books
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paperback
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ISBN
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9780465019496
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340/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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21893
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"[Åsne] Seierstad, the author of The Bookseller of Kabul, first visited Chechnya in 1995, shortly after Russian tanks rolled in. Twelve years later, as another war gave way to a dubious, corrupt peace, she returned, at one point hiding her blond hair and dying her eyebrows and lashes to sneak across the border. This is a chronicle of reciprocal destruction: Seierstad talks to Chechen rebels and to victims of Russian torture; to the mother of a terrorist and the mother of a maimed Russian soldier; to a family that lost four sons to the war and to street children who prove too damaged even for the 'angel' of the title, who runs a home for war orphans.... She is a humane witness to a dehumanizing conflict."—The New Yorker
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