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Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Henry Holt & Company
May 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0805089381
EAN: 9780805089387
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle takes
readers to Pakistan’s rioting streets, to Taliban camps in
the North-West Frontier Province, and on many surprising
adventures as he provides a contemporary history of this
country long riven by internal conflict. With the intimacy
and good humor available only to the most fearless and open-
eyed reporters, Schmidle narrates what was arguably the
most turbulent period of Pakistan’s recent history, a time
when President Pervez Musharraf lost his power and the
Taliban found theirs, and when Americans began to realize
that Pakistan’s fate is inextricably linked with our own. In February 2006 Schmidle had traveled to Pakistan hoping
to learn about the place dubbed “the most dangerous country
in the world.” It was while there that he befriended a
radical cleric (who became an enemy of the state and was
killed), came to crave the smell of tear gas (because it
assured him that he was sufficiently close to the action),
and in the end, was deported by the Pakistani authorities,
managed to get back into the country, and was chased out a
second time.
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