Come Back to Afghanistan - My Journey from California to Kabul

Zusatztext 'Raw! honest and unnerving! the book is a grim reminder of Afghanistan's ongoing political struggles' Informationen zum Autor Said Hyder Akbar is currently a college student. He is also the co-director and founder of his own non-governmental organisation, Wadan Afghanistan, which has rebuilt schools and constructed pipe systems in rural Kunar province. Susan Burton is a contributing editor of This American Life , and a former editor at Harper's . Her writing appears in the New York Times Magazine . Klappentext Interweaves the personal journey of the author - that of a teenager struggling to find his identity in his parents' homeland - with his travels! which take him from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands. This book presents an account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. An intimate memoir of an American teenager rediscovering his Afghani roots post-9/11 Zusammenfassung Interweaves the personal journey of the author - that of a teenager struggling to find his identity in his parents' homeland - with his travels, which take him from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands. This book presents an account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan.

Product details

• Authors: Said Hyder Akbar, Akbar Said Hyder, Susan Burton, Burton Susan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2006
• EAN: 9780747583660
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-8366-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Afghanistan, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, TRAVEL / Asia / Central