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Groznyin Enkelit (2007)

by Åsne Seierstad(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

WSOY

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 and Chechnya, it will also help the reader to put other Russian past and current "foreign adventures" into perspective, e.g. Afghanistam, Georgia, Ukraine, etc (and who knows what will come next).
review 2: I don't understand why the title of this book is The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War, when only about 1/12, or 2 chapters out of 24, relate to Hadijat (the "Angel") and the lives of war-orphaned children. The rest of the book is mostly made up of accounts of the author's ... moretravels in Chechnya and Moscow and her interviews with soldiers, politicians, and citizens. While it certainly does focus attention on the horrors and injustice of war in general, and in Chechnya particularly, it doesn't do so in an especially coherent way--though maybe that in itself is another point about the situation: it is not tidy or rational. Apparently the author lived at the children's home for a period of time. It would have been interesting and instructive to have learned more about that experience, and more about the individual children who also lived there. less

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