Kissed by the Taliban: My Unrequited Love of Reporting and the Wrong Woman
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510729682 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has also taken him to Nigeria, where he reported on the continuing unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta. About the AuthorCarmen Gentile is a journalist who has written for some of the world’s leading publications, including the New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, USA Today, and many others. He began his international reporting career in the late 1990s when he was based in Cairo, Egypt. . He has covered both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, embedding with soldiers on the front line
Inventive and unprecedented surgeries would ultimately save Gentile's face and eyesight, but the depression and trauma that followed his physical and emotional injuries proved a much harder recovery. On September 9, 2010, while embedded with an Army unit and talking with locals in a small village in eastern Afghanistan, journalist Carmen Gentile was struck in the face by a rocket-propelled grenade. Ultimately, Gentile would find that returning to the front lines and continuing the work he loved was the only way to become whole again.Gentile recounts the physical and mental recovery which included a month of staring only at the ground on doctors' orders, a battle with opiate-induced constipation and a history of drug addiction, night terrors born of post-traumatic stress, the Jedi-like powers of General David Petraeus, and finding normalcy under falling mortars in an Afghan valley. Inexplicably, the grenade did not explode and Gentile survived, albeit with the right side of his face shattered and blinded in one eye.Making matters worse, his engagement was on the ropes and his fiancée absent from his bedside.Kissed by the Taliban chronicles the author's numerous missteps and shortcomings while coming to terms with injury and a lost love. The result is an unapologetic, self-deprecating, occasionally cringeworthy, and always candid account of loss and
. He has covered both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, embedding with soldiers on the front line. He began his international reporting career in the late 1990s when he was based in Cairo, Egypt. Carmen Gentile is a journalist who has written for some of the world’s leading publications, including the New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, USA Today, and many others. His work has also taken him to Nigeria, where he reported on the continuing unrest in the oil-rich