The Morning They Came for Us (24 page)

Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later â after endless phone calls, much of what the French call
malentendu
, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had passed between them â they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together.

The remnants of their separate lives, now left behind, are tentatively unpacked into their shared apartment on the Right Bank: Bruno's heavy blanket from Ethiopia, a set of long feathered arrows from Brazil, an ash tray stolen from a hotel in Algeria, and Janine's flak-jacket and canvas boots, still full of sand from the Western Desert in Iraq.

But having met in another lifetime â in another world â ordinary, civilian life doesn't come easily. War has become part of them: it had brought them together, and, though both are damaged by it, neither can quite leave it behind. And the difficult journey that follows, through their mix of joy and terror at becoming parents, Bruno's battle with post-traumatic stress and addiction, and Janine's determination to make France her home, leads to an understanding of the truth that people who deeply love each other cannot always live together.

A searing, profoundly moving love letter, beautifully written,
Ghosts by Daylight
is a powerfully raw portrait of marriage and motherhood in the aftermath of war.

âJanine di Giovanni writes with unblinking courage about war, death, marriage, motherhood, loss, love, redemption, fear â indeed, about all the world's most pressing risks and dangers â¦ Her writing here (as ever in her remarkable career) is a great and important achievement' Elizabeth Gilbert

âGripping and brilliantly done'
The Times

âA vivid, heartfelt book that shows the extremes of life lived to the full' T
atler

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Madness Visible

Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals. This was a conflict that raised challenging questions: what causes neighbours, whose families have lived peacefully for centuries, to turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally ill-defined? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed?

Searching for answers, di Giovanni brings the reality of war into focus: children dying from lack of medicine, women driven to despair and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps and soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed. In
Madness Visible
she paints an indelible portrait of the Balkans under siege and shows the true â human â cost of war.

âA terrifying account, soberly written â¦ Presents a stunning portrait of the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming confusion of contemporary wars'
Independent

âA moving book by one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents â¦ some of the stories are so tragic that they are hard to get through â¦ excellent'
Daily Telegraph

âAlways compassionate, never sentimental, di Giovanni gives voice to the victims, perpetrators and architects of the conflict'
Marie Claire

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The Place at the End of the World

At the start of her career Janine di Giovanni was advised, âWrite about the small voices, the people who can't write about themselves.'

For over fifteen years, she has been doing exactly that. From a near-abandoned hospital in Chechnya to bombed-out Tora Bora in Afghanistan, from Saddam Hussein's derelict palace in Baghdad to the inner-city barrios of Kingston, Jamaica, di Giovanni has covered almost every embattled place in the world and the people caught in its midst. Like Myriem, who lives on the West Bank, but can no longer use her farm because it falls on the Israeli side of the security fence; and Sia, one of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone, who talks blithely of shedding her violent past; and Abdul, who was imprisoned by the Taliban at seventeen for not wearing a beard.

The pieces collected here begin with Algeria in 1998 and end with Iraq in 2005. They are vivid, raw and impassioned â and they make war terrifyingly real.

âFew writers can match her evocations of individual suffering in wartime'
Newsweek

âA gifted and humane reporter with a novelist's eye for detail'
Literary Review

âOne of our generation's finest foreign correspondents'
Daily Telegraph

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here
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The Shadow of the Wind
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