Breakup
A Reporter’s Marriage Amid a Central African War
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Narrated by:
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Anjan Sundaram
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By:
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Anjan Sundaram
About this listen
After ten years of reporting from Central Africa for The New York Times, Associated Press and others, award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and newborn. But when word arrives of preparations for a genocide in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty as a husband and father and his moral responsibility to report on a conflict unseen by the world.
Soon he is traveling through the CAR, with a driver who may be a spy, bearing witness to ransacked villages and locals fleeing imminent massacre, fielding offers of mined gold and hearing stories of soldiers who steal schoolbooks for cigarette paper. When he refuses to return home, journeying instead into a rebel stronghold, he learns that there is no going back to the life he left behind.
Breakup illuminates the personal price that war correspondents pay as they bear witness on the frontlines of humanitarian crimes across the world. This brilliantly introspective, grounded account of one man’s inner turmoil in the context of a dangerous journey through a warzone is sure to become a modern classic.
©2023 Anjan Sundaram (P)2023 Bolinda PublishingCritic Reviews
"Riveting... A powerful study of the forces that tear nations and people apart." (Publishers Weekly)
"A wonderful blend of the public and personal, of war and love, told in clear and beautiful language." (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends)
"A compelling journey of hatred and horror, of compassion and courage, through the wreckage left by French imperialism in the Central African Republic... I can hardly imagine the bravery it took to compile this invaluable record." (Noam Chomsky)