To Asmara - Softcover

Keneally, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446391719 ISBN 13: 9780446391719

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1990

Synopsis

This national bestseller by the highly-acclaimed author of "Schindler's List" tells the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist's soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.

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From Library Journal:

During the Ethiopian famine, a food convoy was destroyed by Eritrean rebels. The rebels, ignored by the press for decades, earned global infamy in 45 seconds of news coverage. Keneally's courageous attempt to investigate the Eritrean side of the story provided the material for this novel. Authored by the highly talented Keneally, it could have been one of the most important books of the decade. But narrator Darcy gives a journalist's account that, too often, employs understatement to convey suffering. He interrupts the story to explain in self-pitying fashion why his wife left him; it seems that Darcy, a man of convictions, has come to see that bold actions--a betrayal and an assault on an airstrip--are motivated not by politics but by the devotion of men of action to their women. Darcy's companions, zombie-like Christine, cynical Henry, and feminist Julia, are one-note creations. Finally, we're never convinced that the Eritreans aren't using Darcy to portray Ethiopian barbarities while hiding barbarities of their own. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/89.
- Frank Pisano, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

"This impassioned new work by the Australian author of Schindler's List straddles the boundary between fiction and reportage so adeptly that it almost deserves a category of its own," proclaimed PW . Several individuals journey through Ethiopia and Eritrea, encountering oppression, politics, the arid grandeur of the land and the constant struggle for survival.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0446391719
• ISBN 13: 9780446391719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308