Sunday, October 07, 2007
Kunduz Kabul Kandahar
I'm only halfway through The Lion's Grave by the acclaimed New Yorker war correspondent Jon Lee Anderson, but already I have a very different picture of reality in the Hindu Kush. In Anderson's 2001 and 2002 dispatches from Afghanistan, the chaos of chronic warfare against invading superpowers over two centuries, combined with the inevitable inter-tribal vengeance and personal feuds that accompany such a destabilized society, makes Catch-22 seem perfectly reasonable by comparison. Anderson's juxtaposing of engaging journalistic narrative with real time logistical correspondence as he navigated the early days of the latest international conflict there, makes for an informative as well as entertaining literary adventure.
We look forward to more from this courageous and thoughtful reporter.
We look forward to more from this courageous and thoughtful reporter.
