Opium nation, child brides, drug lords, and one woman's journey through Afghanistan, Fariba Nawa
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Opium nation, child brides, drug lords, and one woman's journey through Afghanistan, Fariba Nawa
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-343) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Opium nation
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Fariba Nawa
Sub title
child brides, drug lords, and one woman's journey through Afghanistan
Summary
When veteran reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan-the nation she had fled as a child with her family during the Soviet invasion nearly twenty years earlier-she discovered a fractured country transformed by a multi billion-dollar drug trade. In Opium Nation, Nawa deftly illuminates the changes that have overtaken Afghanistan after decades of unbroken war. Sharing remarkable stories of poppy farmers, corrupt officials, expats, drug lords, and addicts, inch ling her haunting encounter with a twelve-year-old child bride who was bartered to pay off her father's opium debts, Nawa offers a revealing and provocative narrative of a homecoming more difficult than she ever imagined as she courageously explores her own Afghan American identity and unveils a startling portrait of a land in turmoil. --Book Jacket
Target audience
adult
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