Qais Akbar Omar

Broschiertes Buch

A Fort of Nine Towers

Beschreibung

With all the emotional power of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan.

Autor

Qais Akbar Omar manages his family's carpet business in Kabul and writes books. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado. He has studied business at Brandeis University and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Boston University. He is a recipient of the Scholars at Risk Fellowship from Harvard University. Omar has lectured on Afghan carpets in Afghanistan, Europe, and the United States. His memoir, A Fort of Nine Towers, describes his life growing up in war-torn Afghanistan, during which he became an interpreter for Coalition soldiers. He is the coauthor, with Stephen Landrigan, of Shakespeare in Kabul.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• On Demand
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781447221753
• ISBN-10: 1447221753
• Artikelnr.: 39340833

Rezensionen

To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today. This haunting memoir traces the unimaginable odyssey of one family whose world has collapsed. But it is also a chilling ground-zero chronicle of the beleaguered nation's darkest hours of the last three decades. Poetic, powerful, and unforgettable. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns