{"id":626,"date":"2009-05-11T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/?p=626"},"modified":"2010-04-04T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:11:03","slug":"the-angel-of-grozny-orphans-of-a-forgotten-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2009\/05\/the-angel-of-grozny-orphans-of-a-forgotten-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War<\/strong> <!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Writer:<\/strong> \u00c5sne Seierstad, Nadia Christensen<br \/>\n<strong>Translation:<\/strong> Nadia Christensen<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Perseus Books Group, 2008<br \/>\nISBN 0465011225, 9780465011223<br \/>\n340 pages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the early hours of New Year\u2019s 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict that continues to this day. A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time, \u00c5sne Seierstad traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war, describing its affects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the following decade, Seierstad became an internationally renowned reporter and author, traveling to the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other war-torn regions. But she never lost sight of this conflict that had initially inspired her career. Over the course of a decade, she watched as Russia ruthlessly suppressed an Islamic rebellion in two bloody wars and as Chechnya evolved into one of the flashpoints in a world now focused on the threat of international terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2006, Seierstad finally returned to Chechnya, traveling in secret and under the constant threat of danger. In a broken and devastated society she lived with orphans, the wounded, the lost. And she lived with the children of Grozny, those who will shape the country\u2019s future. She asks the question: What happens to a child who grows up surrounded by war and accustomed to violence?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A compelling, intimate, and often heartbreaking portrait of Chechnya today, The Angel of Grozny is a vivid account of a land\u2019s violent history and its ongoing battle for freedom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=waon-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0465011225&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,62],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","tag-asne-seierstad","tag-nadia-christensen"],"views":1509,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}