Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later - after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had passed between them - they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together. The remnants of their separate lives, now left behind, are tentatively unpacked into their shared apartment on the Right Bank: Bruno's heavy blanket from Ethiopia, a set of long feathered arrows from Brazil, an ash tray stolen from a hotel in Algeria, and Janine's flak-jacket and canvas boots, still full of sand from the Western Desert in Iraq. But having met in another lifetime - in another world - ordinary, civilian life doesn't come easily.
'Janine di Giovanni writes with unblinking courage about war, death, marriage, motherhood, loss, love, redemption, fear - indeed, about all the world's most pressing risks and dangers ... Her writing here (as ever in her remarkable career) is a great and important achievement' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Gripping and brilliantly done' The Times 'Janine di Giovanni has described war in a way that almost makes me think it never needs to be described again' Sebastian Junger 'Unashamedly romantic, and combining quiet reflection with pacy narrative, di Giovanni looks at love with the same clear eye she brings to war' Economist
Title: Ghosts by daylight
Subtitle: a memoir of war and love
Contributors:
By (author)
Janine di Giovanni
ISBN 13: 9781408822319
ISBN 10: 1408822318
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/08/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Biography & autobiography
NBS Classification: Autobiography: General
Dewey Classification:
070.4332092
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm