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The Opium Prince
Author | : Jasmine Aimaq |
Publsiher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781641291590 |
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Jasmine Aimaq’s stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl’s tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul at the helm of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to eradicating the poppy fields that feed the world’s opiate addiction. But on the drive out of Kabul for an anniversary trip with his wife, Daniel accidentally hits and kills a young Kochi girl named Telaya. He is let off with a nominal fine, in part because nomad tribes are ignored in the eyes of the law, but also because a mysterious witness named Taj Maleki intercedes on his behalf. Wracked with guilt and visions of Telaya, Daniel begins to unravel, running from his crumbling marriage and escalating threats from Taj, who turns out to be a powerful opium khan willing to go to extremes to save his poppies. This groundbreaking literary thriller reveals the invisible lines between criminal enterprises and political regimes—and one man’s search for meaning at the heart of a violent revolution.
Opium Season
Author | : Joel Hafvenstein |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : 1599215950 |
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Prince of Pirates
Author | : Carl A. Trocki |
Publsiher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9971693763 |
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Offers a reinterpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Malaysian history, revealing continuities between pre-colonial and colonial periods that have been obscured by attention given to the European intrusion.
Karl Marx Prince of Darkness
Author | : George Fabian |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 735 |
Release | : 2011-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781462874323 |
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Opium Nation
Author | : Fariba Nawa |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780062100610 |
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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 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’sThe Dressmaker of Khair Khanaand 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.
The Opium Question
Author | : Samuel Warren |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : BL:A0017781832 |
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The House of the Scorpion
Author | : Nancy Farmer |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781471120381 |
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Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom… because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect.
Imperial Twilight
Author | : Stephen R. Platt |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307961747 |
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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.