Taliban Shuffle Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Name: Taliban Shuffle Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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ISBN: 9780307477385

ISBN-10: 030747738X

ISBN-13: 9780307477385

Edition: 2016

Authors: Kim Barker

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A true-lifeCatch-22set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents.Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. InThe Taliban Shuffle,Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.When Barker arrives in Kabul, foreign aid is at a…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.97" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

KIM BARKERjoined theChicago Tribunein 2001 and was South Asia bureau chief from 2004 to 2009. She currently holds the prestigious Edward R. Murrow press fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. She lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.