We are now beginning our descent
By: James Meek
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781407413259
Subjects: Large type books; War correspondents; Fiction
Description: The message was short. 'I want to see you now. I want you to come to me, it doesn't matter how late it is, and tell me exactly what you want from me. Like the world around him, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Adam Kellas' life is showing distinct signs of cracking apart. Against his better judgement, Kellas - divorced, unstable, spurned by his lover and by the world of letters - accepts a war assignment from his newspaper. It is the beginning of a journey which takes him from the mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London, the marshlands of the American South and, ultimately, to the darkest realms of the human imagination. Only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid, a fellow reporter in Afghanistan, offers him the possibility of hope.
Notes: Originally published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2008.