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BOOK
Title A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story / Qais Akbar Omar
Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Kirseberg:Vuxen Facklitteratur (900-999)  958.1 engelska    DUE 24-04-19  ---
Edition 1st ed
Descript 396 p. : maps ; 24 cm
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
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
Subject Omar, Qais Akbar
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Afghanistan -- Biography
Classmark 958.104092 B
Koal
ISBN/ISSN 9780374157647 (hardcover alk. paper)
0374157642 (hardcover alk. paper)
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