{"product_id":"9780345806321","title":"Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook of the Year, The Royal African Society (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuœciñski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world’s unhappiest countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 2005, Anjan Sundaram abandoned his path to a Yale Ph.D. in mathematics to travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and refashion himself as a journalist. He found a country that was diseased, corrupt, and poised on the cusp of war. When Sundaram is engaged as a “stringer” for the Associated Press, he becomes a chronicler for a country he’s just beginning to experience. \u003ci\u003eStringer\u003c\/i\u003e is his searing portrait of life in this broken, lawless place, an account of the rocky education of a reporter. Sundaram describes the grueling reality of daily existence in the Congo, intimately outlining his own struggle to make sense of life in a world where cab rides can end at gunpoint and rebel generals are only a phone call away. As the city of Kinshasha descends into anarchy after a contested election, Sundaram takes shelter in a factory to file report after report even as other journalists flee. Oscillating between anger and loneliness and between melancholy and exhilaration, \u003ci\u003eStringer\u003c\/i\u003e completely transports us not only to the Congo—but to the limits of sanity, reason, and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049627009264,"sku":"9780345806321","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345806321_p0.jpg?v=1763688889","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345806321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}