A Mighty Heart

For the movie, see A Mighty Heart (film).

A Mighty Heart

Cover of A Mighty Heart
Author	Mariane Pearl
Original title	A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl
Language	English
Published	2003

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl (also subtitled A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl) (2003) is a memoir by Mariane Pearl, a freelance French journalist. She covers the 2002 kidnapping and murder by terrorists in Pakistan of her late husband Daniel Pearl, an American journalist with The Wall Street Journal. ^[1]

Reception

The book was reviewed by, among others, The Christian Science Monitor , the Chicago Sun-Times , The Spectator and The New York Review of Books . ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Adaptations

A Mighty Heart was adapted as a dramatic 2007 film of the same name, starring Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, Dan Futterman as Daniel Pearl and Archie Panjabi as their friend and colleague Asra Nomani. ^[6] The movie also covers efforts by the US Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence to track the kidnappers and bring them to justice.

References

1. Pearl, Mariane (2003). A Mighty Heart . with Sarah Crichton. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN   978-0-7432-4442-8.
2. Heller McAlpin (2 October 2003). "Collateral Damage". The Christian Science Monitor .
3. Jonathan Curiel (2 November 2003). "The quiet courage of Daniel Pearl". Chicago Sun-Times .
4. Caroline Moorehead (29 November 2003). "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl". The Spectator .
5. William Dalrymple (4 December 2003). "Murder in Karachi (abstract)". The New York Review of Books .
6. Asra Nomani (24 June 2007). "A Mighty Shame". The Washington Post .

External links

• Presentation by Mariane Pearl on A Mighty Heart, March 19, 2004