Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban - Couverture souple

Mastrogiacomo, Daniele

 
9781933372976: Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1933372974 ISBN 13 : 9781933372976
Editeur : Europa Editions, 2010

Synopsis

On March 5, 2007, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver, and his interpreter were captured by the Taliban. His captors threatened to execute him if Italy did not immediately withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. When Italy refused this demand, the driver, twenty-five-year old Sayed Agha, was decapitated before Mastrogiacomo's eyes. A video of this horrifying event was shown around the world, and Mastrogiacomo spent the rest of his time in captivity, convinced that a similar fate would soon befall him.

His jail, however, was not a dark room hidden away in some urban periphery, but a kind of open-air prison: to escape detection, his captors dragged him from village to village, through opium plantations, along dusty roads and over rugged mountains, from one end of Afghanistan to the other.

It was a captivity that consisted in a continuous and nerve-racking confrontation with a world that bore no resemblance to that which he had ever known. Mastrogiacomo draws from his experience not only a hostage's tale of captivity but also a story that lies at the heart of the eternal human drama: that of a man's encounter with The Other.

As brilliantly crafted as a first-rate suspense novel and with the kind of emotional impact associated with the best literary fiction, Mastrogiacomo's story of courage and tenacity in the face of imminent danger is unforgettable.

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À propos de l?auteur

Daniele Mastrogiacomo was born in Karachi in 1954. Since 1980, he has covered national and international affairs for the Italian daily La Repubblica. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most hostile places: Kabul, Teheran, Palestine, Baghdad, and Mogadishu. In 2006, he reported on the war in Lebanon between Israel and the Hezbollah.

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Éditeur
Europa Editions
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1933372974
ISBN 13 
9781933372976
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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