Night Draws Near
Book description
Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid went to war…
Why read it?
1 author picked Night Draws Near as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Before his untimely and tragic death, Anthony Shadid was one of the brightest foreign correspondents working in the Middle East, and his prose reads, at times, like poetry.
This book is beautiful, haunting, and unique. It taught me the value of covering war not by looking at what happens on the frontline but by turning towards society and the people affected by it—something I sought to do in my own book about the Afghan war nearly two decades later.
From Sune's list on nonfiction stories that can rival any novel.
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