Fort of Nine Towers An Afghan Family Story

Name: Fort of Nine Towers An Afghan Family Story
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ISBN: 9781250043658

ISBN-10: 1250043654

ISBN-13: 9781250043658

Edition: N/A

Authors: Qais Akbar Omar

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One of the rare memoirs""of Afghanistan to have been written by an""Afghan, "A Fort of Nine Towers "reveals the richness""and suffering of life in a country whose""history has become deeply entwined with""our own. For the young Qais Akbar Omar, Kabul""was a city of gardens where he flew kites""from his grandfathers roof with his cousin Wakeel while their parents, uncles, and aunts""drank tea around a cloth spread in the""grass. It was a time of telling stories, reciting""poetry, selling carpets, and arranging marriages.Then civil war exploded. Their neighborhood""found itself on the front line of a""conflict that grew more savage by the day. With rockets falling around them, ""Omars family…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 4/8/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English