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When veteran reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan—the nation she had fled as a child with her family during the Soviet invasion nearly twenty years earlier—she discovered a fractured country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade. In Opium Nation, Nawa deftly illuminates the changes that have overtaken Afghanistan after decades of unbroken war. Sharing remarkable stories of poppy farmers, corrupt officials, expats, drug lords, and addicts, including her haunting encounter with a twelve-year-old child bride who was bartered to pay off her father’s opium debts, Nawa offers a revealing and provocative narrative of a homecoming more difficult than she ever imagined as she courageously explores her own Afghan American identity and unveils a startling portrait of a land in turmoil.
著者について
Fariba Nawa has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, The Sunday Times Magazine (London), Newsday, and the Village Voice. She has been a guest on CBS’s 48 Hours as well as numerous other television and radio shows on NPR, the BBC, MTV, and NBC. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters.
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4 人中、4人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A Fascinating Read
2011/12/15
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Opium Nation is an excellent read about the side of the opium/heroin drug business we don't often think about in the West - its inception in Afghanistan.
I agree with a lot of what the other reviewers say here about the book providing much needed insight into the workings of the drug trade and the lives it impacts. But what really stood out for me were the descriptions of the lives of girls and women in Afghanistan - they aren't always what you might expect. From stories of girls' lives growing up in war - to female drug smugglers and addicts - to politicians and anti-narcotics officers - to the author's own story as an Afghan-American woman returning there - these narratives flesh out what is often missing in accounts of Afghanistan - the diverse and fascinating lives of women there.
Hands down, this is the best book I have read on the subject of the Afghan drug trade. And in addition to being very informative, it's a really enjoyable book to read. You'll find your mind turning to the people whose lives Nawa recounts well after you have finished reading the book. To me, that's the mark of a good book. I recommend Opium Nation to anyone who is curious about Afghan society and wants to better understand the role of the drug trade in modern day Afghanistan.
I agree with a lot of what the other reviewers say here about the book providing much needed insight into the workings of the drug trade and the lives it impacts. But what really stood out for me were the descriptions of the lives of girls and women in Afghanistan - they aren't always what you might expect. From stories of girls' lives growing up in war - to female drug smugglers and addicts - to politicians and anti-narcotics officers - to the author's own story as an Afghan-American woman returning there - these narratives flesh out what is often missing in accounts of Afghanistan - the diverse and fascinating lives of women there.
Hands down, this is the best book I have read on the subject of the Afghan drug trade. And in addition to being very informative, it's a really enjoyable book to read. You'll find your mind turning to the people whose lives Nawa recounts well after you have finished reading the book. To me, that's the mark of a good book. I recommend Opium Nation to anyone who is curious about Afghan society and wants to better understand the role of the drug trade in modern day Afghanistan.
4 人中、4人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
... Absolutely engaging, witty, and thoroughly accessible.
2011/11/9
形式:ペーパーバック
Fariba Nawa: writes beautifully and sincerely, recreating her earliest memories from Afghanistan, during the Soviet occupation-- gracefully weaving together intimate, personal family history, with the experiences of a child growing up inside a very close loving family, surrounded by pomegranate orchards, inside the ancient walls of a once, great Medieval city, and surviving the deafening sounds, and graphic imagery of gunfire, and violent resistance. Nawa writes with the precision and shrewdness of a veteran journalist, tying together biography, politics, and history, in a way that I find absolutely engaging, witty, and thoroughly accessible.
1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The human side of the Afghan drug trade
2012/4/12
形式:ペーパーバック
A very enjoyable and highly recommended read. Journalist Fariba Nawa brings the Afghan people to life, which is a wonderful change of pace from the one-dimensional, cartoonish depictions that the media too often feeds its audience. Opium Nation is a fascinating and insightful trip into the depths of the infamous Afghan drug trade. Nawa touches on a wide array of topics within her thought provoking journey among family, friends, random acquaintances, and sometimes suspicious strangers as she ventures back to the land of her birth. There has been so much talk about "women's issues" in Afghanistan among politicians and non-Afghan activists, yet it's refreshing to read the thoughts and concerns of actual Afghan women from all walks of life, grandmothers to tough anti-narcotics cops. Opium Nation will hopefully encourage readers to examine both the pros and cons of opium eradication policies and the wider global drug war based on Nawa's interviews with and stories about the Afghans on the ground who are either adversely affected by addiction, extortion, and selective law enforcement as well as those for whom small-time growing and dealing means food on the table and a little extra money for "legitimate" purposes.
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