DEBORAH SCROGGINS

La joven cooperante humanitaria Emma McCune escandalizó a muchos de sus compañeros y llegó incluso a los titulares de la prensa internacional al casarse con uno de los líderes rebeldes de la guerra civil de Sudán, la más larga de cuantas han asolado el continente africano. A través del relato de la vida de Emma McCune, la autora nos acerca a la realidad de un país a punto de vivir un cambio histórico y esperanzador. La Guerra de Emma es a la vez una improbable historia de amor y una perturbadora exploración de los dilemas morales que se esconden detrás de la ayuda humanitaria.

Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer. Emma McCunes passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of the Sudan, and her striking glamour set her apart from other aid workers the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to marry a local warlord a man who seemed to embody everything she was working against and throw herself into his violent quest to take over southern Sudans rebel movement. At once a disturbing love story and a penetrating examination of the Sudan, Emmas War charts the process by which Emmas romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of Africas longest running civil war.

Emma McCunes passion for Africa, her unstinting commitment to the children of Sudan, and her youthful beauty and glamour set her apart from other relief workers from the moment she arrived in southern Sudan. But no one was prepared for her decision to marry a local warlorda man who seemed to embody everything she was working againstand to throw herself into his violent quest to take over southern Sudans rebel movement.With precision and insight, Deborah Scrogginswho met McCune in Sudancharts the process by which McCunes romantic delusions led to her descent into the hell of Africas longest-running civil war. Emmas War is at once a disturbing love story and an up-close look at Sudan: a world where international aid fuels armies as well as the starving population, and where the northern-based Islamic governmentbacked by Osama bin Ladenis locked in a war with the Christian and pagan south over religion, oil, and slaves.A timely, revelatory account of the nature of relief work, of the men and women who choose to carry it out, and of one womans sacrifice to its ideals.