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The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War

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A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent’s horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed to start with hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this can be a masterpiece of autobiographical journalism. Aidan Hartley, a foreign correspondent, burned-out from the horror of covering the terrifying micro wars of the 1990s, from Rwanda to Bosnia, seeks solace and solitude in the remote mountains and deserts of southern Arabia and the Yemen, following his father’s death. Whilst there, he finds himself at the trail of the tragic story of an old friend of his father’s, who fell in love and used to be murdered in southern Arabia fifty years ago. As the terrible events of the past unfold, Hartley finds his own roughly deliverance. `The Zanzibar Chest’ is a powerful story about a man witnessing and confronting extreme violence and being broken down by it, and of a son seeking to come to terms with the death of a father whom he also saw as his best friend. It charts not just a love affair between two people, but also the British love affair with Arabia and the vast emptinesses of the desert, which change into a fitting metaphor for the emotional and religious condition in which Hartley finds himself.

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