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9780061934704

Opium Nation

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    9780061934704

  • ISBN10:

    0061934704

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-11-08
  • Publisher: Perennial
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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.

Table of Contents

Prologuep. 1
Home After Eighteen Yearsp. 5
Four Decades of Unrestp. 30
A Struggle for Coherencyp. 55
My Father's Voyagep. 69
Meeting Daryap. 90
A Smuggling Traditionp. 106
The Opium Bridep. 118
Traveling on the Border of Deathp. 128
Where the Poppies Bloomp. 149
The Smiles of Badakhshanp. 168
My Mother's Kabulp. 183
Women on Both Sides of the Lawp. 199
Adventures in Karte Parwanp. 216
Raids in Takharp. 230
Uprisings Against Warlordsp. 242
The Good Agentsp. 258
In Search of Daryap. 273
Through the Meshp. 287
Letting Gop. 305
Epiloguep. 314
Acknowledgmentsp. 319
Notesp. 321
Bibliographyp. 335
Indexp. 345
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