I Was the Beggar of the World - Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

Examines the impact that more than a decade of U.S. military involvement has had on the culture and lives of women in a series of landays, an ancient oral couplet, expressing a collective rage, a love of homeland, and a call to arms.

Product details

• Authors: Eliza (TRN)/ Murphy Griswold
• Assisted by: Seamus Murphy (Photographs), Eliza Griswold (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.04.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9780374191870
• ISBN: 978-0-374-19187-0
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV