Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374279675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norwayand Its Aftermath, The Bookseller of Kabul, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. He lives in Norway with his family.. She lives in Oslo, Norway.Sean Kinsella was born in Ireland and holds an MPhil in literary translation from Trinity Col
About the AuthorÅsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She lives in Oslo, Norway.Sean Kinsella was born in Ireland and holds an MPhil in literary translation from Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norwayand Its Aftermath, The Bookseller of Kabul, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. He lives in Norway with his family.
Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them.Employing the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought to The Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanishedand are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstromeven after they marry ISIS fighters. The riveting story of two sisters’ journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them homeTwo Sisters, by the international bestselling author