A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal

From January until April 2003 -- for one hundred and one days -- Åne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before, during, and after the attacks by the American and British forces. Seierstad was determined to understand the modern secrets of an ancient place and to find out how the Iraqi people really live. In A Hundred and One Days, she introduces us to daily life under the constant threat of attack -- first from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Moving from the silence of life under Hussein to the explosions that destroyed the power supply, the water supply, and security, Seierstad explores what happens when the dam bursts, what people choose to say when they can say what they like, and what they miss most when their world changes overnight. Displaying her novelist's eye and lyrical storytelling, Séinstad brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters, telling stories we rarely see on the evening news. As the only woman to cover both the fall of Kabul in 2001 and the Baghdad bombings in 2003, Åne Seierstad has redefined war reporting with this book.