Love & War in Afghanistan
by Alex Klaits, Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits
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Author: Alex Klaits, Gulchin Gulmamadova-KlaitsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-07
ISBN: 158322727X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Book Review: Authors have created a fascinating, very readable book
Summary: 5 Stars
The authors have created a splendid work. As amateur anthropologists, they have collected life histories from a number of individuals which illustrate rags-to-riches and back again to rags, marriage and divorce, etc., all against the backdrop of dramatic and drastic civil conditions. The underlying saga of the desire of the human spirit to seek to overcome and prevail over harsh conditions was quite moving. The stories illustrate how brutal the acts were of various players over the past decades, and how no side has been pure in the several decades of conflict.
It seems to me that as Americans we have a moral imperative to learn and understand Afghanistan, in order to comment rationally about our policy vis-a-vis that country. This book illustrated so many points about that country in its very human portrayal of those who participated in the oral history project. It was hard to put down.
Summary of Love & War in Afghanistan
Love and War in Afghanistan presents true stories of fourteen ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan. In a quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. The country remains an object of fascination for journalists, academics, and filmmakers from around the world. In the midst of it all it is a startlingly powerful experience to discover, here, the voices of the Afghan people themselves.Young lovers who elope against the wishes of their kin; a mullah whose wit is his only defense against his armed captors; a defector from the Soviet army; a woman who is forced to stand up to gangsters in Tajikistan?their dramatic stories emerge in their own unforgettable words. Whether in the sudden awakening of mercy in a Taliban militiaman, the lingering contempt of a woman for her husband?s first wife, the pain and confusion of flight into exile, or the resourcefulness of a child who must provide for an entire family, the real focus of these narratives is the strength of solitary individuals faced daily with their own vulnerability.
Men, women, orphans, widows, widowers, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Turkmens, schoolteachers, mullahs, former Taliban, mujahideen, big brothers, little sisters, captive wives, lovers in flight: Love and War in Afghanistan tells their stories, putting human faces onto a country torn by war.
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