本讀本榮獲 The Extensive Reading Foundation ★ 「LLL Award Finalist 2012」 ★
類型:Human interest(人物故事:社會寫實)
一九九○年代早期,年輕記者凱蒂來到被圍城的塞拉耶佛,兩個同儕分別給她互相牴觸的建議。一位攝影大哥說:「我去過那麼多戰爭現場,這是唯一不能客觀面對的戰爭,沒人能說出客觀看法。」而另一位義大利記者說:「這不是你的或我的戰爭,我們只需置身事外,看到什麼報導什麼就好,不可以太投入。」但凱蒂實在太深入前線,還發現了殘酷戰爭真實面中,仍有希望的美麗和力量…
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. In the early 1990s Katy, a young reporter, arrives in Sarajevo, a city under siege, and receives conflicting advice from two colleagues.
'Of all the wars I've been in,' a news cameraman tells her, 'this is the one where it's not possible to 'be objective'. You can't be objective about what's going on here.'
'This is not my war or your war,' an Italian journalist explains. 'We just report what we see, but we stay outside it. We can't get too involved. We mustn't get too near.'
But Katy does get too near…