From the rear cover
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 multibillion-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, 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.
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- Title Opium Nation
- Author Fariba Nawa
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2011-11-08
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061934704 / 0061934704
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.33 x 0.9 in (20.42 x 13.54 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st, Drug traffic - Social aspects - Afghanistan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011028527
- Dewey Decimal Code 958.104
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2011, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 08/08/2011, Page 0
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