Oriana Fallaci
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Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her book Interview with History contains interviews with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Henry Kissinger, South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and North Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp during the Vietnam War. The interview with Kissinger was published in Playboy, with Kissinger describing himself as "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse". Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press". She also interviewed Deng Xiaoping, Andreas Papandreou, Ayatollah Khomeini, Haile Selassie, Lech Wałęsa, Muammar Gaddafi, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Mário Soares, Alfred Hitchcock, and many others. After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of controversial articles and books critical of Islam that aroused condemnation as well as support. Source: [Oriana Fallaci]( on Wikipedia.
Books
La Rabbia E L'Orgoglio
The writer's first work for ten years, on themes linked to the events of September 11: America, Italy, Europe, Islam and ourselves, interspersed with personal memoirs.
Niente e così sia
A partir de la pregunta sobre qué es la vida, que hace a Oriana Fallaci su pequeña hermana de cinco años, la periodista se pone a reflexionar. Lo hace desde su puesto de corresponsal extranjero cubriendo la sangrienta guerra de Vietnam y la ingenua pregunta deja de serlo en medio de uno de los episodios históricos más bárbaros de los últimos años. La respuesta tardara en llegar y será mucho más compleja de lo que pueda imaginarse.
Inch'allah
Chloe is a young Canadian doctor who lives in Jerusalem and works in Ramallah. Every day she passes through the checkpoints between the two feuding sides to monitor the pregnancies of young women. As she spends time with Rand, one of her patients, she learns more about life in the occupied territories. The more time she spends with Rand and her family, Chloe becomes torn between two sides of the conflict.
Inshallah
Traces the story of Italian peacekeepers in Lebanon after the car bombing of American and French barracks.
Inschallah
Im Mittelpunkt des vielschichtigen Anti-Kriegsromans stehen die Schicksale italienischer UN-Blauhelme, die in Beirut zwischen allen Bu rgerkriegsfronten im Einsatz sind.
Lettera a un bambino mai nato
not sure until i read but this is the book after she made an abortion and regretted it. she was a very strong woman, Oriana herself.
The rage and the pride
"Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response, the lenience of the West. With her brutal sincerity she hurls pitiless accusations, vehement invectives, and denounces the uncomfortable truths that all of us know but never dare to express. With her rigorous logic, lucidity of mind, she defends our culture and blames what she calls our blindness, our deafness, our masochism, the conformism and the arrogance of the Politically Correct. With the poetry of a prophet like a modern Cassandra she says it in the form of a letter addressed to all of us."--BOOK JACKET.