Book description
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre on
9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national
correspondent for the
Los Angeles Times
, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding
warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-ravaged Iraq
and Lebanon and to other countries scarred by violence, including
Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the
Muslim world and labouring to tell its stories.
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
is Megan Stack's riveting account of what she saw in the combat zones
and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow
disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of
freedom and democracy. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon;
records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by
one, marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews.
Beautiful, savage and unsettling, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
is a memoir about the wars of the twenty-first century that readers
will long remember.
MEGAN STACK has reported on war, terrorism
and political Islam from twenty-two countries since 2001. She was
awarded the 2007 Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best
newspaper reporting from abroad and was a finalist for the 2007
Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. After many years in the
Middle East, she is now Moscow bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.
