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Nawa, Fariba
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Opium trade -- Social aspects -- Afghanistan.
Drug traffic -- Social aspects -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Afghanistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Opium nation : child brides,
drug
lords, and one woman's journey through
Afghanistan
/ Fariba Nawa.
by
Nawa, Fariba
Subjects
Opium trade
--
Social
aspects
--
Afghanistan
.
Drug
traffic
--
Social
aspects
--
Afghanistan
.
Women
--
Afghanistan
--
Social
conditions.
Afghanistan
--
Social
conditions
--
21st century.
Afghanistan
--
Social
life and customs
--
21st century.
Publisher Info:
New York : Harper Perennial, c2011.
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 358 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780061934704 (pbk.)
0061934704 (pbk.)
Contents:
Home after eighteen years
--
Four decades of unrest
--
A struggle for coherency
--
My father's voyage
--
Meeting Darya
--
A smuggling tradition
--
The opium bride
--
Traveling on the border of death
--
Where the poppies bloom
--
The smiles of Badakhshan
--
My mother's Kabul
--
Women on both sides of the law
--
Adventures in Karte Parwan
--
Raids in Takhar
--
Uprisings against warlords
--
The good agents
--
In search of Darya
--
Through the mesh
--
Letting go.
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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, including 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."--P. [4] of cover.
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