The Wandering Falcon
by Jamil Ahmad
Pakistan-Afghan borderlands in nine linked stories.
ou want to understand a region the world has only ever seen as a conflict zone
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Ahmad spent thirty years as a civil servant in the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and spent another thirty years writing this book in secret before publishing it at 78. Nine stories, linked by a boy who moves between them like a ghost, each one a complete world — nomads, smugglers, soldiers, women making impossible choices. The most intimate dispatch from inside a geography that exists nowhere in the Western imagination except as a problem to be solved.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Afghanistan • Central Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Afghan author
- Themes
- After Empire
