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Indlæser... Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Waraf Annia Ciezadlo
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This starts out fine, slows down with a bit of a small sigh and then picks up again very quickly. It is a personal memoir of sorts by a young woman who is fascinated by food, culture and war. She writes very well (some phrases and sentences just sing..)and I learned more about Iraq, Iran and Lebanon in this book than in many another more formal history. It also made me fascinated with the food she describes. Most importantly, she brings home the real human cost of wars and the differences between those who start them, those who fight them and those who must carve out a life from the rubble left behind. Worth it! ( ) Wonderful book, with Ciezadlo's on-the-ground reporter's view of the situations in Iraq and Lebanon (from 2003 to about 2008). Ciezadlo is also just married, meeting her Lebanese in-laws, learning to cook, and learning about how people live in wartime--the odd mix of horror and basic life-goes-on mentality. During the first Marine assault on Falluja and the Abu Ghraib court-martials she goes to a Baghdad restaurant for her everyday plate of mixed vegetables. Instead, in the room without air-conditioning (failed generator) she finds the chef had made a complicated chicken roulade, filled with cream sauce. She asks him: 'Why make such a beautiful thing at a time like this?' "An expression of pride and despair...flickered across his face. 'It's what I do'.
In her extraordinary debut, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War, Annia Ciezadlo turns food into a language, a set of signs and connections, that helps tie together a complex moving memoir of the Middle East. She interweaves her private story with portraits of memorable individuals she comes to know along the way, and with the shattering public events in Baghdad and Beirut. She does so with grace and skill, without falling into sentimentality or simple generalizations. HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
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