When he was 17, post 9/11, Said's father returned to Afgahistan as the new president's chief spokesman. The boy had never visited his homeland. Here he gives a fresh, candid appraidal of all aspects of the country. Much praised.
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Said Hyder Akbar’s ordinary suburban Californian life was turned upside-down after September 11th. Hyder’s father, a scion of an Afghan political family, left for Afghanistan to become the new president’s chief spokesman and later the governor of Kunar, a rural province. Obsessed since childhood with a country he had never visited, seventeen-year-old Hyder convinced his father to let him join him. Working alongside his father at the presidential palace and in Kunar gave Hyder a unique perspective on the creation of democratic government in Afghanistan.
In Come Back to Afghanistan, Hyder interweaves his personal journey — that of a teenager struggling to find his identity in his parents’ homeland — with his travels, which take him from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands, to give a dramatic account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
Come Back to Afghanistan features in the following genres: Travel, Biographies & Autobiographies, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Come Back to Afghanistan is available in Paperback
Come Back to Afghanistan was written by Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Come Back to Afghanistan has 413 pages
£8.09
