Opium Nation

<p><strong>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. -- <em>Boston Globe</em></strong></p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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 <em>The Kite Runner </em>and A<em>Thousand Splendid Suns </em>calls <em>Opium Nation </em>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's<em>The Dressmaker of Khair Khana</em>and Rory Stewart's <em>The Places Between</em> will find Nawa'spersonal piercing journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire global crisis.</p>