Opium nation : child brides, drug lords, and one woman's journey through Afghanistan / Fariba Nawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nawa, Fariba.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opium trade--Social aspects--Afghanistan.

Opium trade.

Drug traffic--Social aspects--Afghanistan.

Drug traffic.

Women--Afghanistan--Social conditions.

Women.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Drug traffic--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.

Afghanistan--Social life and customs--21st century.

Physical Description:

viii, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, [2011]

Contents:

1 Home After Eighteen Years 5

2 Four Decades of Unrest 30

3 A Struggle for Coherency 55

4 My Father's Voyage 69

5 Meeting Darya 90

6 A Smuggling Tradition 106

7 The Opium Bride 118

8 Traveling on the Border of Death 128

9 Where the Poppies Bloom 149

10 The Smiles of Badakhshan 168

11 My Mother's Kabul 183

12 Women on Both Sides of the Law 199

13 Adventures in Karte Parwan 216

14 Raids in Takhar 230

15 Uprisings Against Warlords 242

16 The Good Agents 258

17 In Search of Darya 273

18 Through the Mesh 287

19 Letting Go 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-343) and index.

ISBN:

9780061934704

0061934704

OCLC:

639164363

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