| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
319 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Tells the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home--itself an eerily beautiful monument to his losses--to the others: Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for evidence of her soldier brother who disappeared decades before during the Soviet invasion; David, an American, a former spy who has seen his ideals turned inside out during his twenty-five years in Afghanistan; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the West plunges him into the depths of zealotry; and James, the Special Forces soldier in whom David sees a dangerous revival of the unquestioning notions of right and wrong that he himself once held. |
| Contents |
Book one: The great Buddha -- Building the new -- Out of separations -- Night letter -- Street of storytellers -- Book two: Casabianca -- The silent flutes -- The caliphate of New York -- The wasted vigil -- All names are my names. |
| Subject |
Afghanistan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780307268426 alkaline paper |
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030726842X alkaline paper |
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