A In this debut collection of essays about life in Pakistan from 1968 to 1973, Stefan Borges offers a window into a typical American teenager's life in an atypical time and place. Living with his family in Lahore and attending the American International high school there while his father worked as a civil engineer on large-scale projects, Borges experienced a heady mix of exotic sights, sounds, and adventures in a country filled with ancient customs that was undergoing modern political upheaval. From driving trips through the North-West Frontier tribal areas, to being entertained by bird and…mehr
A In this debut collection of essays about life in Pakistan from 1968 to 1973, Stefan Borges offers a window into a typical American teenager's life in an atypical time and place. Living with his family in Lahore and attending the American International high school there while his father worked as a civil engineer on large-scale projects, Borges experienced a heady mix of exotic sights, sounds, and adventures in a country filled with ancient customs that was undergoing modern political upheaval. From driving trips through the North-West Frontier tribal areas, to being entertained by bird and monkey shows, to discovering marine fossils in the desert, to wrestling with the decision of whether to flee during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, these stories capture the indelible memories imprinted upon one boy's life-all of it surrounded by snow-capped mountains, verdant valleys, glacial lakes, and the scents of cumin, cinnamon, and coriander in the air. Borges had many opportunities while living in Pakistan to travel the globe with his father, Alexander Borges, who would go on to publish his own memoir in 2020, Five Countries, describing his seven decades of life after surviving World War II and fleeing East Germany.
To say that Stefan Borges is a product of the world is not an overstatement. Borges was born in Medellín, Colombia, on August 2, 1955, after his parents had fled East Germany. In 1959 his family immigrated to the United States after his father, Alexander, joined a civil engineering company in Chicago. A decade later, that firm brought Borges and his family overseas to Pakistan on assignment, a period of five adventurous years that this book helps to chronicle and during which time he and his family traveled around the world. In 1973, after graduating from Pakistan's Lahore American School, young Borges returned to the U.S. to study at Northern Illinois University. During college and throughout his adult life, Borges would continue to travel-backpacking as a student through Europe; visiting his parents during their next assignment in Buenos Aires, Argentina; making overseas trips in his career as a corporate sales executive. Now, at age sixty-five, Borges has visited well over thirty countries so far, and along with his wife he continues to roam the world.
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