World Is a Carpet Four Seasons in an Afghan Village

Name: World Is a Carpet Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
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ISBN: 9781594488320

ISBN-10: 1594488320

ISBN-13: 9781594488320

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Authors: Anna Badkhen

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An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat—like a carpet.Anna Badkhen first traveled to this country in 2001, as a war correspondent. She has returned many times since, drawn by a land that geography has made a perpetual battleground, and by a…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 3.37" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Anna Badkhennbsp;was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States in 2004. She began covering conflicts in 2001 and has written about people in extremis from four continents for Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Times, and other publications.nbsp;Her wartime reporting won the 2007 Joel R. Seldin Award for reporting on civilians in war zones from Psychologists for Social Responsibility. She lives in Philadelphia.