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A fort of nine towers / Qais Akbar Omar.

By: Omar, Qais Akbar [author.]Contributor(s): Omar, Qais Akbar [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Picador, c2013Description: xi, 396 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447221753 [newsprint]Subject(s): Afghanistan Politics and government 1989-2001 | Afghanistan Social conditions 20th century | Childhood and youth of a person

Contents:

Part One: The holy warriors -- Part Two: Flight -- Part Three: In the time of Shaitan -- Part Four: The triumph of madness.

Summary: "Qais Ahkbar Omar was eleven when a brutal civil war engulfed Kabul. For Qais, it brought an abrupt end to a childhood filled with kites and cousins in his grandfather's garden: one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history had begun. Ahead lay the rise of the Taliban, and, in 2001, the arrival of international forces." --Provided by the publisher

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	College Library Fiction	F Om17f 2013 (Browse shelf)	Available		3UCBL000025883
Fiction	College Library Fiction	F Om17f 2013 (Browse shelf)	Available		3UCBL000025882

Part One: The holy warriors -- Part Two: Flight -- Part Three: In the time of Shaitan -- Part Four: The triumph of madness.

"Qais Ahkbar Omar was eleven when a brutal civil war engulfed Kabul. For Qais, it brought an abrupt end to a childhood filled with kites and cousins in his grandfather's garden: one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history had begun. Ahead lay the rise of the Taliban, and, in 2001, the arrival of international forces." --Provided by the publisher