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Author:
Omar, Qais Akbar.
Title:
A fort of nine towers : an Afghan family story / Qais Akbar Omar.
Edition:
1st Picador ed.
Publisher:
Picador/FarrarStraus and Giroux,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xii, 396 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Omar, Qais Akbar.
Afghanistan--Biography.
Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century.
Omar, Qais Akbar.
Afghanistan--Biography.
Afghanistan--Social conditions.
Summary:
Qais Akbar Omar recounts his childhood when his father, while trying to keep the family safe, was forced to smuggle the family out of Afghanistan after the civil war began.
Indexed by:
Booklist starred, April 2013
Publisher's Weekly, January 2013
Kirkus Starred, March 2012
New York Times, June 2013
Booklist starred
Publisher's Weekly
Kirkus Starred
ISBN:
1250043654
9781250043658 (pbk.)
Locations:
SHPC094 -- Denver Public Library (Denver)
AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

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