2010 National Book Award Finalist,
Nonfiction
Megan K. Stack
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
Doubleday
Photo credit: Sergei
L Loiko
ABOUT THE BOOK
A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror.
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world and laboring to tell its stories.
Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is Megan K. Stack’s riveting account of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon; records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan K. Stack has
reported on war, terrorism, and political Islam from
twenty-two countries since 2001. She was most recently
Moscow bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.
She was awarded the 2007 Overseas Press Club’s
Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad,
and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in international
reporting.
SUGGESTED LINKS
'Every Man in This Village
Is a Liar' by Megan K. Stack
From the front lines, an account of war and disillusionment
June 20, 2010|By Marla Stone, Special to the Los
Angeles Times
articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/20/entertainment/la-ca-megan-stack-20100620
AUDIO - War Stories: A Reporter's Education
In The Mideast
by NPR Staff, Morning Edition
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127909768&ft=3&f=1032