儘管戰爭可能害死我們的朋友、破壞我們的家園
卻摧毀不了我們與生俱來的正直、慷慨與仁慈，
人之所以為人的特質
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震撼度直逼《西線無戰事》的戰地報導文學小說，
如果《戰爭與和平》為你帶來心靈成長與救贖，那這一本更是不容錯過的經典！
走過烽火、悲慟、屍骸與扭曲文化交織的片段，
她，一個女人，如何在劫後餘生的歲月中重新建立價值觀？
餐桌，這唯一的和平應許之地，
用葡萄葉捲、薩姆麵包、烤雞、優格，烹調出屬於家園的溫暖滋味！
2011 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION WRITING AND LITERATURE AWARD FINALIST
Travel books bring you places. War books bring you tragedy. In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade’s most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.
Making palpable the day-to-day life during conflicts and catastrophes, Badkhen describes not just the shocking violence but also the beauty of events that take place even during wartime: the spring flowers that bloom in the crater hollowed by an air-to-surface missile, the lapidary sanctuary of a twelfth-century palace besieged by a modern battle, or a meal a tight-knit family shares as a firefight rages outside. Throughout Badkhen’s stories, punctuated by recipes from the meals she shared with the people she encountered, emerges the most important lesson she has observed in conflict zones from Afghanistan to Chechnya: that war can kill our friends and decimate our towns, but it cannot destroy our inherent decency, generosity, and kindness — that which makes us human.
★本書中譯版《戰食和平：關於戰爭與食物的真實故事》由智園出版。
作者簡介
安娜．巴德肯（Anna Badkhen）
蘇聯戰地女記者，善於書寫生活在戰爭中的人們。她採訪過世界上最殘酷的衝突，得到普利茲危機報導中心的資助，完成阿富汗相關系列報導，著有《戰食和平》、《等待塔利班》、《外交政策》。曾榮獲「促進社會責任心理學家協會」頒發喬爾．賽爾丁獎，也曾兩度入圍國際報導類李文斯頓青年記者獎，作品見於舊金山紀事報、紐約時報、波士頓環球報等。
Anna Badkhen has been writing about conflicts since 2001 for The New York Times, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, and other publications. She lives in Philadelphia.
