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Midnight, At The War: A Novel
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Inspired By Journalists Christiane Amanpour And Sylvia Poggioli, Midnight, At The War Is A Novel About A Reporter Chasing The Biggest Story Of Her Career As She Contends With A Tense Newsroom, A Dangerous Global Conflict, And All The Problems SheS Running Away From At Home, By The Acclaimed Novelist That Megha Majumdar Calls A Gem Of A Writer.Foreign Correspondent Rita Das Has Left New York For The WarTorn Middle East, A Reassignment She Asked For After Learning She Is Pregnant But Uncertain Whether The Father Is Her Husband Or Her Lover. As She Strives To Shed Light On The Fallouts Of The War, Rita Finds Herself Embroiled In Her Own Conflicts With Her Interpreter And Her News Editor, Her Sources And Her Colleagues. She Is Unable To Accept The Loss Of Her Mother And Deal With Her Guilt For Not Being At Her Side When She Died.Fiercely Independent And Ambitious (And, In Her Journalism, Deeply Humane), Rita Is Also In Denial About Her Need For Intimate Human Relationships. As She Goes Into The Field To Report On The War, She Grapples With The Physical And Emotional Tolls Of Her Pregnant Body And A Turbulent Region Where The Numbing Repetition Of War Slides Suddenly Into Horror. When Her News Editor Delivers Urgent Orders For Her To Return To New York, Rita Is Faced With A Choice About How She Wants To Live Her Life As A Journalist And A SoonToBe Mother.Set In The Years Immediately After 9/11, And Drawn From Devi LaskarS Own Experience As A Government Reporter In The 1990S And Early Aughts, Midnight, At The War Is An Exploration Of Love And Grief, Of Moral Ambiguity And Forgiveness, Of Modern War And The Wars We Wage Within Ourselves.
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