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050 1 4 _aCT1878.O63
_bA3 2014
082 0 4 _a958.104092
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100 1 _aOmar, Qais Akbar,
_eauthor.
_95217
245 1 2 _aA fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story
250 _aFirst Picador edition.
300 _axii, 396 pages :
_bmaps ;
_c21 cm
505 0 _aThe holy warriors. In the time before ; Allah-hu-Akbar ; The other side of the mountain ; To be a family again ; The long road home ; Under the earth -- Flight. The North ; The garden of Hamza's father ; Inside the head of Buddha ; Borderlands ; My teacher ; Caravan -- In the time of Shaitan. The gold ; Wakeel ; Inferno ; The dog -- The triumph of madness. A new kind of justice ; The prison ; A precious jewel ; The length of a hair ; The secret of the pigeons ; University of Taliban ; Grandfather ; One knot at a time ; A change in the air -- A journey still.
520 _aA young Afghan man's memoir of his family and country in which the horrors and perils he faced, his imprisonment, and his quiet resistance explore life in a country whose history has become deeply entwined with the United States, but has eluded understanding.
600 1 0 _aOmar, Qais Akbar.
_95217
651 0 _aAfghanistan
_xSocial conditions
_y20th century.
_98972
651 0 _aAfghanistan
_vBiography.
_98973
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