Full name: Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan

Author: Fariba Nawa Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Journalism, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

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. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and AThousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation "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 The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and Rory Stewart's The Places Between will find Nawa'spersonal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to thecultural criticism covering this dire global crisis. Similar books: City Room by Arthur Gelb A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden Highest Duty by Chesley B. Sullenberger Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann Nigger by Dick Gregory Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane The Translator by Daoud Hari The Sisters by Mary S. Lovell The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein Running on Red Dog Road by Drema Hall Berkheimer The Wolf at Twilight by Kent Nerburn By Chance Alone by Max Eisen Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford