[NYC-L] [Fwd: FW: BOOK READING tuesday ON KOSOVO WAR AND THE NEW YORK CONNECTION]

[Erkanda Bujari]

-FYI

 

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For anyone interested in the Balkans, or just a well-told tale, 
journalist Stacy Sullivan will be reading from her new book, "Be Not 
Afraid For You Have Sons in America." It is the story of

an ethnic Albanian immigrant to New York who launched a guerrilla army 
in Kosovo from his

Brooklyn roofing company. The official publication date is May 25, but 
Sullivan is

reading at KGB on Tuesday night, May 4, at 7 PM.

 

KGB Bar

85 East 4th Street

New York, NY 10003

(212) 505 3360

 

what other writers say about the book:

 

Thanks to years of reporting, Stacy Sullivan has managed to hunt down the

inside story of how a Brooklyn roofer helped launch a guerrilla army in the

Balkans. With her remarkable tales of gun-running, intrigue, high politics,

and murder, Sullivan has given us a work of contemporary history that reads

more like a crime thriller. She has also offered a disturbing glimpse behind

the scenes of one of the only wars ever waged on humanitarian grounds.

Samantha Power - author of Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Problem From Hell."

 

 

Stacy Sullivan allows us to peer into the shadowy world of revolutionaries,

gangsters, gun runners and war profiteers who work below the surface of

every conflict.  Her story is as timeless as it is compelling.  She

chronicles the awful machinery of war, the high idealism and base cynicism,

the brutal politics and utopian visions, which propel young men into

battlefields and often leaves them broken and scarred.  She captures,

through her dogged reporting, the dark and frightening labyrinth of war.

Chris Hedges - author of NYT bestseller "War is A Force That Gives Us

Meaning."

 

 

 "Be Not Afraid'" is a war reporting tour de force - tough, thorough, and

gut-wrenching. In the tradition of Anthony Lukas' "Common Ground" Stacy

Sullivan gives us an unforgettable character - the avenging Brooklyn emigre

Florin Krasniqi - to capture the full emotional toll of a brutal war we only

thought we understood.

Todd Balf, author of NYT bestseller "The Last River" and "The Darkest

Jungle."

 

 

 

Peter S. Green

Knight-Bagehot Fellow

Columbia University Graduate School of Business

400 West 119th Street

New York, NY 10027

Tel: 917 583 2390

Email: petergreen at pobox.com

 

 

 

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