A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story / Qais Akbar Omar.
A young Afghan man's searing and redemptive memoir of his family and country -- the horrors and perils he faced, his imprisonment, and quiet resistance -- reveals the truth about life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with our own but has, until now, eluded our understanding.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374157647
- ISBN: 0374157642
- Physical Description: viii, 396 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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- Omar, Qais Akbar.
Afghanistan > Social conditions > 20th century.
Afghanistan > Biography. - Genre:
- Autobiographies.
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