Breakup: A Reporter's Marriage amid a Central African War

An award-winning journalist named Anjan Sundaram was torn between his duty to his family and his moral responsibility to expose the genocide in the Central African Republic. He traveled through the CAR, driven by a possible spy, discovering ransacked villages and locals fleeing imminent massacre. When he refused to return home, he learned that there was no going back to the life he had left behind. Breakup is a modern classic that illuminates the personal price paid by those bearing witness on the frontlines of humanitarian crimes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 11 May 2023
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

After ten years of reporting from central Africa, Anjan Sundaram is living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and newborn. However, when preparations for genocide emerge in the Central African Republic, he is torn between his duty to his family and his moral responsibility to expose the conflict.

Soon, he is traveling through the CAR, driven by a possible spy, discovering ransacked villages and locals fleeing imminent massacres, fielding offers of mined gold, and hearing of soldiers who steal schoolbooks for cigarette paper. When he refuses to return home, he journeys into a rebel stronghold, learning that there is no going back to the life he has left behind.

Breakup illuminates the personal price paid by those bearing witness on the frontlines of humanitarian crimes across the globe. This brilliantly introspective, strikingly grounded account of perilous war zones and inner turmoil is sure to become a modern classic.

Weight: 366g
Dimension: 148 x 224 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805260202