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Omar, Qais Akbar.
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Omar, Qais Akbar.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
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A fort of nine tower...
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A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story / Qais Akbar Omar.
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Omar, Qais Akbar.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Subjects
Omar, Qais Akbar.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374157647 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
0374157642 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
396 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
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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A young Afghan man's memoir of his family and country in which the horrors and perils he faced, his imprisonment, and his quiet resistance explore life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with the United States, but has eluded understanding.
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Kapolei Public Library
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958.10409 Omar Om
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Lihue Public Library
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958.10409 Omar Om
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