Come back to Afghanistan : a California teenager's story / Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton.
Come back to Afghanistan : a California teenager's story / Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton.
By
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Akbar, Said Hyder.
Publication Date
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2005
Publication Information
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New York : Bloomsbury :
Edition
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First U.S. ed.
Physical Description
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xi, 339 p. : maps.
Geographic Term
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Afghanistan -- Description and travel.
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Afghanistan -- History. -- 2021-
Additional Contributors
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Burton, Susan, 1973-
Summary
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Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on This American Life, Hyder Akbar tells how his ordinary suburban California life was turned upside-down after 9/11. Hyder's father, a scion of an Afghan political family, sold his business―a hip-hop clothing store in Oakland―and left for Afghanistan, where he became President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman and later, the governor of Kunar, a rural province. Obsessed since youth with a country he had never even visited, seventeen-year-old Hyder convinced his father to let him join him on three successive summers. Working alongside his father at the presidential palace and in Kunar has given Hyder a rare front-row seat at the creation of democratic government in Afghanistan. In Come Back to Afghanistan, Hyder interweaves his personal journey―a teenager struggling with his identity in his parents' homeland―with a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Uncommonly wise and insightful, Hyder travels from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands, revealing Afghanistan as readers have never seen or understood it before.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781582345208
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. Lawrence (BSL) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 958.1047 AK2 | Checked In |