Anna Badkhen, Free Press, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6648-2
"What happens when a search for stories coincides with a search for food?" asks Russian-born journalist Badkhen in her first book. In a series of broadly linked personal narratives, she illuminates the strange, dark history of the past couple of...
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Anna Badkhen. Riverhead, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-832-0
The trials and tribulations desperately poor Oqa, a hamlet in northern Afghanistan so remote that regional officials don't even know it exists, comes to life through the story of Thawra, a carpet weaver, and her family. Badkhen, a Russian-born war...
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Anna Badkhen. Riverhead, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59463-248-8
After years as a war correspondent, Badkhen (The World Is a Carpet) came to Mali in 2013 to live with the nomadic Fulani as they walk across Mali’s savannah. This lyrical account of that journey eloquently describes the culture of the Fulani and is...
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Anna Badkhen. Riverhead, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59463-486-4
Journalist Badkhen (Walking with Abel) delivers an evocative, hauntingly beautiful narrative of life in Joal, a fishing village in Senegal. As she embeds herself within boat crews and frequents the seaside gazebos where the fishermen spend their...
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Anna Badkhen. Bellevue Literary, $17.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-954276-54-3
Journalist Badkhen (Bright Unbearable Reality) asks in these soul-stirring essays whether language can capture the enormity of grief and offer hope amid catastrophe. Through her travels across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, she explores how...
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