Twenty Years
Autor Sune Engel Rasmussenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 aug 2024
No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young Afghans knew the promise of freedom, democracy, and safety, fought with each other over its meaning--and then witnessed its collapse. In Twenty Years, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen draws on more than a decade of reporting from the country to tell Afghanistan's story from a new angle. Through the eyes of newly empowered women, skilled entrepreneurs, driven insurgents, and abandoned Western allies, we see the United States and its partners bring new freedoms and wealth, only to preside over the corruption, war-lordism, and social division that led to the Taliban's return to power. Rasmussen relates this history via two main characters: Zahra, who returns from abroad with high hopes for her liberated county, where she must fight to escape a brutal marriage and rebuild her life; and Omari, who joins the Taliban to protect the honor of his village and country and winds up wrestling with doubt and the trauma of war after achieving victory. We also meet Parasto, who risks her life running clandestine girls' schools under the new Taliban regime, and Fahim, a rags-to-riches tycoon who is forced to flee. With intimate access to these and other characters, Rasmussen offers deep insight into a country betrayed by the West and Taliban alike.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780374609948
ISBN-10: 0374609942
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374609942
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Sune Engel Rasmussen