Opium nation : child brides, drug lords, and one woman’s journey through Afghanistan / Fariba Nawa.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 358 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 20 cmISBN: - 9780061934704
- HD 9675 .O653 .N39 2011
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“Includes bibliography”—(p. [335]-343).
Contents: 1. Home after eighteen years—2. Four decades of unrest—3. A struggle for coherency—4. My father’s voyage—5. Meeting Darya—6. A smuggling tradition—7. The opium bride—8. Traveling on the border of death—9. Where the poppies bloom—10. The smiles of Badakhshan—11. My mother’s Kabul—12. Women on both sides of the law—13. Adventures in Karte Parwan—14. Raids in Takhar—15. Uprisings against warlords—16. The good agents—17. In search of Darya—18. Through the mesh—19. Letting go—Epilogue—Acknowledgments—Notes—Bibliography—Index.
“An insightful and informative look at the global challenge of the Afghan drug trade…. A very engaging narrative that chronicles Afghanistan’s dangerous descent into opium trafficking… and, most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives of ordinary Afghan people, Khaled Hosseini, author of the Kite runner and a thousand splendid suns”—cover page.
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