In Bali Blues, Jeremy Allan chronicles the heartrending, harrowing, and ultimately inspiring events he witnessed during the year following the Bali Bomb, providing an intimate glimpse of an Indonesian community that, in a generation, has grown from impoverished seaside village into a cosmopolitan tourist resort.
Bali Blues examines a community in crisis as residents struggled to survive in the sudden absence of the tourists who provided their livelihood. Living in Kuta, Jeremy Allan becomes embroiled in the social conflicts of this multicultural community as the physical and economic trauma brings long-simmering tensions to the surface.
Bali Blues also examines the background of the attack itself, the growth of a fanatical form of Islam that gave birth to the terrorists, and the open, tolerant Balinese society that allowed the perpetrators to operate undetected in their midst; culminating in a riveting, minute-by-minute reconstruction of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the Bali Bomb.
What others have said about Bali Blues:
Bali Blues looks beyond the 2002 tragedy to the lives of those most affected by it. It’s the real story of survival and rebirth and you won’t find it any place else.
—Ryan Ver Berkmoes, author, Lonely Planet Bali & Lombok
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