A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK
“The Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in Iran in December 2024, spending three weeks in solitary confinement before diplomatic negotiations got her out. This incident doesn’t feature in The Fire: instead, the book centers on the stories of the young people Sala meets on her fearless reporting trips around the world. A Ukrainian soldier, an Iranian protestor, an Afghan activist—those risking their lives for political change, in essence. The archetype of the globetrotting reporter hopping from warzone to warzone is alive and well.”
Read the full article in GQ.
