Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780374287573
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- West of Kabul, East of New York : an Afghan American Story
- Author
- Tamim Ansary
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
- Item Length
- 7.5 in
- Topic
- International Relations / General, Islam / General, United States / 21st Century, Customs & Traditions, Religion, Politics & State, World / Asian
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
- Country of Origin
- United States
West of Kabul, East of New York : An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary…
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374287570
ISBN-13
9780374287573
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2279086
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
2002
Topic
International Relations / General, Islam / General, United States / 21st Century, Customs & Traditions, Religion, Politics & State, World / Asian
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-102958
Reviews
“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
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
973/.0491593/0092 B
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 communiqueacute; 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 2002
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