Title:
A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story / Qais Akbar Omar.
Author:
Omar, Qais Akbar, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
©2013
Call Number:
CT1878.O63 A3 2014
Abstract:
A young Afghan man's memoir of his family and country in which the horrors and perils he faced, his imprisonment, and his quiet resistance explore life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with the United States, but has eluded understanding.
Edition:
First Picador edition.
ISBN:
9781250043658
Physical Description:
xii, 396 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Contents:
The holy warriors. In the time before ; Allah-hu-Akbar ; The other side of the mountain ; To be a family again ; The long road home ; Under the earth -- Flight. The North ; The garden of Hamza's father ; Inside the head of Buddha ; Borderlands ; My teacher ; Caravan -- In the time of Shaitan. The gold ; Wakeel ; Inferno ; The dog -- The triumph of madness. A new kind of justice ; The prison ; A precious jewel ; The length of a hair ; The secret of the pigeons ; University of Taliban ; Grandfather ; One knot at a time ; A change in the air -- A journey still.
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