Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan

ISBN: 0812969820

Author: Michener, James A.

Condition: New

First published in 1963, James A. Micheners gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistans remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past.Praise for CaravansBrilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.-The New York TimesRomantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.-NewsdayMichener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.-The New York Herald Tribune