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The intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Bloomsbury Publishing
November 2005
320 pages ISBN: 1582345201 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on
This American Life, Hyder Akbar tells how his
ordinary suburban California life was turned upside-down
after 9/11. Hyder’s father, a scion of an Afghan political
family, sold his business--a hip-hop clothing store in
Oakland--and left for Afghanistan, where he became
President Hamid Karzai’s chief spokesman and later, the
governor of Kunar, a rural province. Obsessed since youth
with a country he had never even visited, seventeen-year-
old Hyder convinced his father to let him join him on three
successive summers. Working alongside his father at the
presidential palace and in Kunar has given Hyder a rare
front-row seat at the creation of democratic government in
Afghanistan. In Come Back to Afghanistan, Hyder interweaves
his personal journey--a teenager struggling with his
identity in his parents’ homeland--with a dramatic behind-
the-scenes account of political and civilian life in post-
Taliban Afghanistan. Uncommonly wise and insightful, Hyder
travels from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the
borderlands, revealing Afghanistan as readers have never
seen or understood it before.
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