A review by allabaranovsky
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Åsne Seierstad

3.0

While I have to give Asne Seierstad credit for going into the Chechen war looking like a swimsuit model and coming out alive to write a book about it, I think she cuts a few corners by either imitating Anna Politkovskaya (the interview with Kadyrov jr, for instance, has quite a few questions borrowed from Politkovskaya's earlier interview with him) or concentrating on the minute cultural differences and thus sounding like a typical clueless westerner. The stories are, however, heart-wrenching, and the book is well put together. I bet it was a hit in Norway.