"Nawa deftly sketches the geopolitical nightmare that is today's
Afghanistan, but the book's real strength is her detailed, sensitive
reporting of individual people's stories." -- Boston Globe
An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country
torn apart--from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides--while
revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land.
Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply
personal explorationof Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the
country, from corruptofficials to warlords and child brides and beyond.
KhaledHosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid
Suns calls Opium Nation "an insightful andinformative look at the
global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her
personalstory of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very
engagingnarrative that chronicles Afghanistan's dangerous descent into
opiumtrafficking...and most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged
the lives ofordinary Afghan people." Readers of Gayle Lemmon
Tzemach'sThe Dressmaker of Khair Khanaand Rory Stewart's The Places
Between will find Nawa'spersonal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an
indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire
global crisis.
