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In The Time Of Madness
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ISBN/EAN: 9781448130542
Umbreit-Nr.: 6459108
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 336 S., 0.59 MB
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Erschienen am 31.03.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
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- Zusatztext
- <p><b>** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **</b></p><p>In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years it had been paralysed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto. But now the age of Suharto was reaching its end, giving way to a new era of chaos and superstition - the 'time of madness' predicted centuries before by poets and seers.</p><p>On the island of Borneo, tribesmen embarked on a savage war of head-hunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. After the tumultuous fall of Suharto came the vote of independence from Indonesia for the tiny occupied country of East Timor. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Lloyd Parry reached his own painful, personal crisis.</p>
- Kurztext
- ** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years it had been paralysed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto. But now the age of Suharto was reaching its end, giving way to a new era of chaos and superstition - the 'time of madness' predicted centuries before by poets and seers.On the island of Borneo, tribesmen embarked on a savage war of head-hunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. After the tumultuous fall of Suharto came the vote of independence from Indonesia for the tiny occupied country of East Timor. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Lloyd Parry reached his own painful, personal crisis.
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Richard Lloyd Parry</b>is Asia Editor of<i>The Times</i>. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the<i>Independent</i>and now for<i>The Times</i>. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the<i>London Review of Books</i>and the<i>New York Times Magazine</i>. He is the author of<i>In The Time of Madness</i>, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and<i>People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman</i>.
- Schlagzeile
- A brilliant eyewitness account of the violence that erupted in Indonesia at the end of the nineties.