Formerly a reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first and biggest independent daily, WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI has been witness to some of the most important political events of the end of the twentieth century. He is the recipient of several of Poland’s most prestigious awards for journalism, including a Bene Merito honorary decoration from the Polish government and the Dariusz Fikus award for excellence in journalism. Seen by many as the literary heir to Ryszard Kapuściński, he is the author of several books of in-depth reportage, including Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, which won Italy’s Letterature dal Fronte Award. Arguably Poland’s best-known contemporary non-fiction writer, Jagielski lives outside Warsaw.
"The Night Wanderers is a balanced union of reflection and
reporting, with a fine eye for ironic detail." —Minneapolis Star
Tribune
"Uganda has been ravaged by civil war, and Joseph Kony's militant
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) continues to perpetrate one of the
gravest humanitarian crises of our time—this is the context for
this brave, devastating work of war reportage. The facts are
chilling, and Jagielski handles them with integrity and a minimum
of stylistic flourish, treating the subject with the dignity it
deserves."
—Publishers Weekly
"Jagielski’s moving, beautiful, and winding account of Uganda’s sad
history of multiple conflicts leaves one mourning the suffering so
many have endured and questioning to what extent the current
government can provide long term solutions for the generations who
survived." —Maria E. Burnett, Senior Researcher, Human Rights
Watch, Africa Division
"A disturbing, thought-provoking account of an under-reported and
tragic story." —Edward Lucas, International Editor, The
Economist
“During the 20 years I spent in Uganda I often wondered how
Kapuscinsky would describe the situations I saw with my eyes in the
country’s tormented North. Reading Night Wanderers, I found the
answer. Its pages of great literary beauty carried me to the
streets of Gulu and made me meet the formerly abducted children,
feel the depths of their pain and awake inside me images, sounds,
and smells so long cherished. Jagielski is a master, not only of
story-telling, but also of digging into the intimacy of people’s
hearts in tragic situations. By taking their side he makes us
understand from a unique angle the complexity of politics in one of
Africa’s most conflictive regions.”
—Father Carlos Rodriguez Soto, author of Tall Grass: Stories of
Suffering and Peace in Northern Uganda
"This is not strictly a journalistic account of war and mayhem; it
is something more powerful and lasting: a literary sojourn through
an African landscape of haunted horrors, observed with
extraordinary patience and empathy by an exceptional writer and
reporter. Wojciech Jagielski paints masterful portraits of
messianic guerrilla leaders and mad dictators, but unforgettable
ones of stone-faced child rebels who have been forced to kill and
maim, and in the process have lost the ability to laugh, cry, or
even enjoy ice cream." —Pamela Constable, author of Playing with
Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself and Fragments of Grace: My Search
for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia
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