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The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love
and War
Aidan Hartley (HarperCollins)
In The Zanzibar Chest, Aidan Hartley weaves together
his family’s history, his childhood in Africa and his
accounts of the continents’ horrendous wars, which
he witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s.
After the end of the Cold War, there seemed to be new hope
for Africa but again and again in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda
and the Congo, terror and genocide prevailed. At once a modern
and a historic love story, The Zanzibar Chest is
also an epic narrative charting the fates of men and women
who embraced and were ultimately transformed by foreign lands.
Aidan Hartley was born in 1965 and brought up in East Africa.
He read English at Balliol College, Oxford and later politics
at London University. He joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent
and has worked in the Balkans, The Middle East and Russia.
He lives in Kenya with his wife and two children.
Publicist: Jessica Axe, Harper Collins 020 8307 4928 jessica.axe@harpercollins.co.uk
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