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Paperback Book Details
  • 09/2014
  • 9780989969239 0989969231
  • 500 pages
  • $9.99
Carey Richard
Author
The Poppy Field Diary

Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)

In the days before the Russian occupation, Kabul's golden age, a tenacious young Afghan woman began a journey that we all take at some point in our lives the journey to forgive. In an unyielding land, she discovered the grace that is within every heart. As JFK floundered in the Cuban missile crisis, she fell in love. As the United States withdrew from Vietnam, her oldest son trained for the buzkashi, the wild game of Afghan polo brought to her country by Genghis Khan. As the Russians invaded Afghanistan, her husband ran guns and opium through the Khyber Pass; as they retreated, she matched wits with a beautiful Czech spy. As the Taliban ravaged Kabul, she cared for a wounded bacha bereesh, an Afghan dancing boy. As the Twin Towers burned, she found true intimacy.

Reviews
Kirkus Reviews

"In Richard's poetic, introspective first novel, after an Afghan woman marries for love in a culture of arranged marriages and multiple wives, she begins a lifelong journey of self-discovery . . . Richard concludes each chapter with haiku-like poems, but his prose also sings lyrically . . . Despite the meditative nature of the narrative, historical action continuously looms in the background the Soviet collapse, factional warring, the rise of the Taliban, and the similarly timed attacks on the World Trade Center and mujahedeen leader Ahmad Shah Massoud."

"A highly personal story that mines the psychology of betrayal and forgiveness." --Kirkus Reviews

Formats
Paperback Book Details
  • 09/2014
  • 9780989969239 0989969231
  • 500 pages
  • $9.99
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