We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
James Meek
mai 2008 · W F Howes · Lest av Andrew Wincott
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The message was short. 'I want to see you now. I want you to come to me, it doesn't matter how late it is, and tell me exactly what you want from me.' Like the world around him, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Adam Kellas' life is showing distinct signs of cracking apart. Against his better judgement, Kellas - divorced, unstable, spurned by his lover and by the world of letters - accepts a war assignment from his newspaper. It is the beginning of a journey which takes him from the mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London, the marshlands of the American South and, ultimately, to the darkest realms of the human imagination. Only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid, a fellow reporter in Afghanistan, offers him the possibility of hope...
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James Meek is an authoe who won the 2015 Orwell Prize for his title Private Island. The award comes with a monetary prize of $5,945. The prize is awarded annually to the best book of political writing, with judges applying the `Orwell test making political writing into an art¿.
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