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From the bestselling author of The Submission A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this penetrating (O, Oprah Magazine), stealthily suspenseful, (Booklist, starred review), breathtaking and achingly nuanced (Kirkus, starred review) novel. Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Cranes experience, Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation. When she arrives, however, Cranes maternity clinic, while grandly equipped, is mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And Cranes memoir appears to be littered with mistakes, or outright fabrications. As the reasons for Parveens pilgrimage crumble beneath her, the U.S. military, also drawn by Cranes book, turns up to pave the solde road to the village, bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal ambush occurs, Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers -- and she must determine her own relationship to the truth. Amy Waldman, who reported from Afghanistan for the New York Times after 9/11, has created a taut, propulsive novel about power, perspective, and idealism, brushing aside the dust of Americas longest-standing war to reveal the complicated truths beneath. A Door in the Earth is the rarest of books, one that helps us understand living history through poignant characters and unforgettable storytelling.About author(s):Amy Waldmans first novel, The Submission, won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an American Book Award and was named a Finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award. It was Entertainment Weeklys #1 Novel for the Year, Esquires Book of the Year, a New York Times Best Book for 2011, one of NPRs Ten Best Novels of the Year, and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book. In the UK, it was a Finalist for The Guardian First Book Award and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Amy was South Asia Bureau Chief for the New York Times and a national correspondent for the Atlantic. She graduated from Yale University and has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Back Bay Books
