{"product_id":"the-night-wanderers-isbn-9781609803506","title":"The Night Wanderers","description":"Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years, the civil society was almost completely destroyed by the LRA, itself made up almost entirely of kidnapped children. Piecing together what has been broken is proving to be a nearly impossible task. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski inserts himself into this hellish landscape and finds a way to speak of these children and their wounded world. In \u003ci\u003eThe Night Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e, Jagielski shows his readers the horror of children who have been abducted from their homes and forced to kill their own family members; children who, even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of their own acts of murder on their young shoulders. Jagielski portrays Uganda through their eyes as well as his own. Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jagielski digs himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and emerges with a compassionate, incisive, painful, magisterial account of a world that is just starting to pull itself out of the horrors of war. The original Polish edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e is shortlisted for the Nike Prize, considered to be the most prestigious literary award in Poland.\"\u003ci\u003eThe Night Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e is a balanced union of reflection and reporting, with a fine eye for ironic detail.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Uganda  has been ravaged by civil war, and Joseph Kony's militant Lord's  Resistance Army (LRA) continues to perpetrate one of the gravest  humanitarian crises of our time—this  is the context for this brave, devastating work of war reportage. The  facts are chilling, and Jagielski handles them with integrity and a  minimum of stylistic flourish, treating the subject with the dignity it  deserves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jagielski’s  moving, beautiful, and winding account of Uganda’s sad history of  multiple conflicts leaves one mourning the suffering so many have  endured and questioning to what extent the current government can  provide long term solutions for the generations who survived.\" \u003cb\u003e—Maria E. Burnett, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Africa Division\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A disturbing, thought-provoking account of an under-reported and tragic story.\" \u003cb\u003e—Edward Lucas, International Editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“During  the 20 years I spent in Uganda I often wondered how Kapuscinsky would  describe the situations I saw with my eyes in the country’s tormented  North. Reading \u003ci\u003eNight Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e,  I found the answer. Its pages of great literary beauty carried me to  the streets of Gulu and made me meet the formerly abducted children,  feel the depths of their pain and awake inside me images, sounds, and  smells so long cherished. Jagielski is a master, not only of  story-telling, but also of digging into the intimacy of people’s hearts  in tragic situations. By taking their side he makes us understand from a  unique angle the complexity of politics in one of Africa’s most  conflictive regions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Father Carlos Rodriguez Soto, author of \u003ci\u003eTall Grass: Stories of Suffering and Peace in Northern Uganda \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This  is not strictly a journalistic account of war and mayhem; it is  something more powerful and lasting: a literary sojourn through an  African landscape of haunted horrors, observed with extraordinary  patience and empathy by an exceptional writer and reporter. Wojciech  Jagielski paints masterful portraits of messianic guerrilla leaders and  mad dictators, but unforgettable ones of stone-faced child rebels who  have been forced to kill and maim, and in the process have lost the  ability to laugh, cry, or even enjoy ice cream.\" \u003cb\u003e—Pamela Constable, author of \u003ci\u003ePlaying with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFormerly a reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first and biggest independent daily, \u003cb\u003eWOJCIECH JAGIELSKI\u003c\/b\u003e has been witness to some of the most important political events of the end of the twentieth century. He is the recipient of several of Poland’s most prestigious awards for journalism, including a \u003ci\u003eBene Merito\u003c\/i\u003e honorary decoration from the Polish government and the Dariusz Fikus award for excellence in journalism. Seen by many as the literary heir to Ryszard Kapuściński, he is the author of several books of in-depth reportage, including \u003ci\u003eTowers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Italy’s \u003ci\u003eLetterature dal Fronte Award\u003c\/i\u003e. Arguably Poland’s best-known contemporary non-fiction writer, Jagielski lives outside Warsaw.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302251450597,"sku":"NP9781609803506","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-night-wanderers-isbn-9781609803506","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}