The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
by Badkhen, Anna
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594632677
- ISBN 13
- 9781594632679
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Synopsis
An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war. In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat—like a carpet. Anna Badkhen first traveled to this country in 2001, as a war correspondent. She has returned many times since, drawn by a land that geography has made a perpetual battleground, and by a people who sustain an exquisite tradition there. Through the four seasons in which a new carpet is woven by the women and children of Oqa, she immortalizes their way of life much as the carpet does—from the petal half-finished where a hungry infant needs care to the interruptions when the women trade sex jokes or go fill in for wedding musicians scared away by the Taliban. As Badkhen follows the carpet out into the world beyond, she leaves the reader with an indelible portrait of fates woven by centuries of art, war, and an ancient trade that ultimately binds the invaded to the invader.
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- Bookseller
- Last Word Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU201501526
- Title
- The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village
- Author
- Badkhen, Anna
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1594632677
- ISBN 13
- 9781594632679
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2014-06-03
- Keywords
- memoir, biography, Middle East, Afghanistan, Middle East
- X weight
- 8 oz
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