Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk

Lara Marlowe and Robert Fisk were lovers, husband, and wife, and friends who learned from each other and the people in the ruined world they reported from. This is a portrait of a remarkable man, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: Head of Zeus

The Irish Times bestseller, A gripping tale of savagery and courage, has been acclaimed by Noam Chomsky as fascinating and captivating. The Irish Times described it as a beautiful book that is full of pain and longing, but also joy, adventure, and excitement. Janine di Giovanni praised it as a superb account of the life and work of the best reporter she has ever known, Patrick Cockburn. In 1983, Lara Marlowe met Robert Fisk in Damascus, where he was already a famous war correspondent. She was a young American reporter who would go on to become a renowned journalist in her own right. For the next twenty years, they were lovers, husband and wife, and friends, occasionally angry and estranged from one another, but ultimately reconciled. They learned from each other and the people in the ruined world they reported from: Lebanon, torn apart by a vicious civil war and Israeli and Syrian occupations; Iran, where they were the only journalists to interview the Middle East's chief hostage-taker and dispatcher of suicide bombers; the Islamist revolt that claimed up to 200,000 lives in Algeria; and the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers, and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.

Weight: 326g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801102520