Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780312421519
- Book Title
- West of Kabul, East of New York : an Afghan American Story
- Publisher
- Picador
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Author
- Tamim Ansary
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Geopolitics, History & Theory, International Relations / General, United States / 21st Century, Islam / General, Customs & Traditions, World / Asian, Religion, Politics & State
- Item Weight
- 13.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312421516
ISBN-13
9780312421519
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2420503
Product Key Features
Book Title
West of Kabul, East of New York : an Afghan American Story
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Geopolitics, History & Theory, International Relations / General, United States / 21st Century, Islam / General, Customs & Traditions, World / Asian, Religion, Politics & State
Features
Revised
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-045025
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
“A book that steadies our skittering compass…It speaks with a modesty of tone and is all the more resonant for that reason….[It] sees things we cannot make out, and need to.” – The New York Times “[This] powerful, timely book, written with clarity and eloquence, chronicles [Ansary’s] angst and his personal journey through two conflicting cultures….We come to see the humanity behind the country that has come into the international spotlight.” – The Mercury News (San Jose) “[Ansary’s] descriptions of his Afghan childhood are luxe and delicious….The author’s profound, complicated homesickness burns across every page.” – Esquire “[An] emotional and moving memoir, driven by passion and intelligence…It breaks the heart.” – The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), “A book that steadies our skittering compass…It speaks with a modesty of tone and is all the more resonant for that reason….[It] sees things we cannot make out, and need to.” — The New York Times “[This] powerful, timely book, written with clarity and eloquence, chronicles [Ansary’s] angst and his personal journey through two conflicting cultures….We come to see the humanity behind the country that has come into the international spotlight.” — The Mercury News (San Jose) “[Ansary’s] descriptions of his Afghan childhood are luxe and delicious….The author’s profound, complicated homesickness burns across every page.” — Esquire “[An] emotional and moving memoir, driven by passion and intelligence…It breaks the heart.” — The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), [This] powerful, timely book, written with clarity and eloquence, chronicles [Ansary’s] angst and his personal journey through two conflicting cultures….We come to see the humanity behind the country that has come into the international spotlight., “A book that steadies our skittering compass…It speaks with a modesty of tone and is all the more resonant for that reason….[It] sees things we cannot make out, and need to.” -The New York Times “[This] powerful, timely book, written with clarity and eloquence, chronicles [Ansary’s] angst and his personal journey through two conflicting cultures….We come to see the humanity behind the country that has come into the international spotlight.” -The Mercury News (San Jose) “[Ansary’s] descriptions of his Afghan childhood are luxe and delicious….The author’s profound, complicated homesickness burns across every page.” -Esquire “[An] emotional and moving memoir, driven by passion and intelligence…It breaks the heart.” -The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), [Ansary’s] descriptions of his Afghan childhood are luxe and delicious….The author’s profound, complicated homesickness burns across every page., A book that steadies our skittering compass…It speaks with a modesty of tone and is all the more resonant for that reason….[It] sees things we cannot make out, and need to., “A book that steadies our skittering compass…It speaks with a modesty of tone and is all the more resonant for that reason….[It] sees things we cannot make out, and need to.” –The New York Times “There are many lives now in our melted world as complicated as Tamim Ansary’s. The wonder is that this son of Afghanistan and America moves between the competing pronouns of his life with a graceful pen; he is never less than curious and generous toward the various chapters of his life that claim him.” –Richard Rodriguez, author of Days of Obligations “[This] powerful, timely book, written with clarity and eloquence, chronicles [Ansary’s] angst and his personal journey through two conflicting cultures….We come to see the humanity behind the country that has come into the international spotlight.” –The Mercury News (San Jose) “[Ansary’s] descriptions of his Afghan childhood are luxe and delicious….The author’s profound, complicated homesickness burns across every page.” –Esquire “[An] emotional and moving memoir, driven by passion and intelligence…It breaks the heart.” –The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Dewey Decimal
973/.0491593/0092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative Christians and talk-show hosts; for the message, written in twenty minutes, was one Ansary had been writing all his life. West of Kabul, East of New York is an urgent communique by an American with “an Afghan soul still inside me,” who has lived in the very different worlds of Islam and the secular West. The son of an Afghan man and the first American woman to live as an Afghan, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life, one never seen by outsiders. No sooner had he emigrated to San Francisco than he was drawn into the community of Afghan expatriates sustained by the dream of returning to their country -and then drawn back to the Islamic world himself to discover the nascent phenomenon of militant religious fundamentalism. Tamim Ansary has emerged as one of the most eloquent voices on the conflict between Islam and the West. His book is a deeply personal account of the struggle to reconcile two great civilizations and to find some point in the imagination where they might meet., Tamim Ansary’s passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict, West of Kabul, East of New York. Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative Christians and talk-show hosts; for the message, written in twenty minutes, was one Ansary had been writing all his life. West of Kabul, East of New York is an urgent communiqué by an American with “an Afghan soul still inside me,” who has lived in the very different worlds of Islam and the secular West. The son of an Afghan man and the first American woman to live as an Afghan, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life, one never seen by outsiders. No sooner had he emigrated to San Francisco than he was drawn into the community of Afghan expatriates sustained by the dream of returning to their country -and then drawn back to the Islamic world himself to discover the nascent phenomenon of militant religious fundamentalism. Tamim Ansary has emerged as one of the most eloquent voices on the conflict between Islam and the West. His book is a deeply personal account of the struggle to reconcile two great civilizations and to find some point in the imagination where they might meet.
LC Classification Number
E184.A23A57 2003
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