A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Inbunden)
avQais Akbar Omar
ISBN: 9780374157647 - UTGIVEN: 2013-04One of the rare memoirs""of Afghanistan to have been written by an""Afghan, "A Fort of Nine Towers "reveals the richness""and suffering of life in a country whose""history has become deeply entwined with""our own.
For the young Qais Akbar Omar, Kabul""was a city of gardens where he flew kites""f[...]
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Häftad)
avQais Akbar Omar
ISBN: 9781250043658 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04Twenty-three years ago--after the Soviets left and before the Taliban came to power--Kabul was a garden where seven-year-old Qais Akbar Omar flew kites from the roof of his grandfather's house. Then came the hollow sounds of rocket fire as the Mujahedin, self-proclaimed holy warriors, took over Afgh[...]
A Fort of Nine Towers (Storpocket)
avQais Akbar Omar
ISBN: 9781447221753 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03'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 ...Poetic, powerful, and unforgettable.' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner. Qais Akbar Omar was eleven when a brutal civil war en[...]
