Books by Åsne Seierstad
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review 1: It may be effective for Errol Morris to allow his interviewees to gush unchecked and create a culpable subtext. This is a fine strategy - for him. It works well on film. Pages of raving do not make for persuasive or evocative prose. If the person in question is a young man leanin...
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review 1: Year 1995: When I watched Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis on DD-1 channel I was so surprised to know that such things could happen in Russia too. News from Chechnya was flowing since then but I always ignored it as conflicts happening inside former Soviet republics. Year 201...
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review 1: Seierstad provides the reader with very touching accounts of what it is like to grow up in a war-torn region as well as portrayls of how those who take part in such wars as state-owned soldiers are indoctrinated to act and think. Even though this is a story about today's Russia a...
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review 1: Åsne Seierstad has done a really good job writing about something so sad and raw. I've always been interested in the minds of "monsters", people who commit despicable crimes. Seierstad provides very few definitive answers on how he grew up to be who he is today. But Anders Behrin...
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review 1: Jag måste tyvärr säga att det inte var så genomtänkt av mig att läsa denna bok. Jag vet inte riktigt vad jag förväntade mig eller hur den skulle vara för att jag skulle varit tyckt att det bra att jag läste den. Jag kände att det låg mig alldeles för nära och tanken på dessa ungd...