Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan

ISBN: 0061934704

Author: Nawa, Fariba

Condition: New

Nawa deftly sketches the geopolitical nightmare that is todays Afghanistan, but the books real strength is her detailed, sensitive reporting of individual peoples stories. - Boston GlobeAn Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart-from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides-while revisiting her own familys deep roots to the land.Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond. KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation an insightful andinformative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her personalstory of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very engagingnarrative that chronicles Afghanistans dangerous descent into opiumtraffickingand most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives ofordinary Afghan people. Readers of Gayle Lemmon TzemachsThe Dressmaker of Khair Khanaand Rory Stewarts The Places Between will find Nawaspersonal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire global crisis.