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DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012 2011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further than the simple image of a failed state so often portrayed in the media, and to see instead a country of immense complexity and importance. Lieven's profound and sophisticated analysis paves the way for clearer understanding of this remarkable and highly contradictory country.
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Superb ... Few writers offer the insight and deep knowledge that Lieven has of a country critical for the West but one often caricatured by the media and rarely understood by Western policy makers ... Timely and compelling (Maleeha Lodhi )
This is a wonderful book, full of learning, wisdom, humour and common sense (Peter Oborne Daily Telegraph )
One cannot give Lieven enough credit ... The book seamlessly flows with historical analysis, anthropological investigation, and painstaking contextualisation ... It is both grand in its scholastic description and in its journalistic flair (Ahmad Ali Khalid Dawn )
A finely researched blend of the nation's 64-year history ... Lieven's feat lies in his remarkable, flesh-and-blood portrait of the nation ... this nuanced analysis should be read, and learned from (The Independent )
By far the most insightful survey of Pakistan I have read in recent years ... a vital book ... detailed and nuanced (Mohsin Hamid New York Review of Books )
Lieven captures the richness of the place wonderfully. His book has the virtues of both journalism and scholarship (The Economist )
An important corrective to the monolithic view of Pakistan ... fresh and deeply informed (Patrick French Mail on Sunday )
A brilliantly articulated and researched argument ... Lieven is a wonderful writer. There are frequent moments of dark humour ... and descriptions that a novelist might envy (Kamila Shamsie The Times )
Everybody nowadays seems to take a view on Pakistan. Very few know what they're talking about. Anatol Lieven is that rare observer ... Pakistan: A Hard Country ... fills a large gap in our understanding (Edward Luce, author of 'In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India' )
The publication of Pakistan: A Hard Country could not be more timely ... illuminating as well as entertaining (The Spectator )
With patience and determination, Lieven observes and records all aspects of the curiosity otherwise known as Pakistan ... A sweeping and insightful narrative (Mohammed Hanif The New York Times )
This is a wonderful book, full of learning, wisdom, humour and common sense (Peter Oborne Daily Telegraph )
One cannot give Lieven enough credit ... The book seamlessly flows with historical analysis, anthropological investigation, and painstaking contextualisation ... It is both grand in its scholastic description and in its journalistic flair (Ahmad Ali Khalid Dawn )
A finely researched blend of the nation's 64-year history ... Lieven's feat lies in his remarkable, flesh-and-blood portrait of the nation ... this nuanced analysis should be read, and learned from (The Independent )
By far the most insightful survey of Pakistan I have read in recent years ... a vital book ... detailed and nuanced (Mohsin Hamid New York Review of Books )
Lieven captures the richness of the place wonderfully. His book has the virtues of both journalism and scholarship (The Economist )
An important corrective to the monolithic view of Pakistan ... fresh and deeply informed (Patrick French Mail on Sunday )
A brilliantly articulated and researched argument ... Lieven is a wonderful writer. There are frequent moments of dark humour ... and descriptions that a novelist might envy (Kamila Shamsie The Times )
Everybody nowadays seems to take a view on Pakistan. Very few know what they're talking about. Anatol Lieven is that rare observer ... Pakistan: A Hard Country ... fills a large gap in our understanding (Edward Luce, author of 'In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India' )
The publication of Pakistan: A Hard Country could not be more timely ... illuminating as well as entertaining (The Spectator )
With patience and determination, Lieven observes and records all aspects of the curiosity otherwise known as Pakistan ... A sweeping and insightful narrative (Mohammed Hanif The New York Times )
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worth a read, but read alongside some other, better books on the region
2011/6/9
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Gets some stuff right, a lot right, but the whole book is written from the point of view of a academic journalist pontificating to government types as to whether Pakistan is going to become a islamist terrorist case. So many things are approached from that point of view. It gets annoying and stays annoying.
It's worth a read, and if Anatol could bring up topics which went beyond "oh lets look at this aspect of Pakistan and it's contribution or lack of to breeding islamic terrorists" it would have been a great book. But repeatedly he fails to just look at the country or the people.
He also fails to appreciate or look into the staggeringly huge impact other countries besides India have had on Pakistan's development - whether the USSR, America, China or Saudi Arabia outside of just funding terrorists, or the sheer extent of American money spent on influencing the Pakistan army and hence the very state itself.
A few billion dollars goes a very, very long way in a poor country, something which Anatol completely glosses over to airbrush the many very negative effects of practically all American engagement with Pakistan so far. If you just read this book, without reading any of the other histories out there, you would walk away thinking that Pakistan pretty much ran the jihad against Russia and America and Saudi Arabia were just sparring buddies helping out Pakistan. Heck, even the movie Charlie Wilson's War will give you a better idea of that era than this book.
It fulfills it's purpose at the end - to justify to western politicians the need to continue engaging Pakistan and to stop thinking about it solely in terms of terrorism, but it would have been nice if Anatol could have managed to that too. He could have had a great book if he could have taken of this islamic terrorist glasses.
Still gets three stars because it's worth a read and Anatol has great insights into Pakistani politicians and how society is structured. And of course as the current hot Pakistan expert Anatol's viewpoints are important, more important than what may or may not be actually happening.
It's worth a read, and if Anatol could bring up topics which went beyond "oh lets look at this aspect of Pakistan and it's contribution or lack of to breeding islamic terrorists" it would have been a great book. But repeatedly he fails to just look at the country or the people.
He also fails to appreciate or look into the staggeringly huge impact other countries besides India have had on Pakistan's development - whether the USSR, America, China or Saudi Arabia outside of just funding terrorists, or the sheer extent of American money spent on influencing the Pakistan army and hence the very state itself.
A few billion dollars goes a very, very long way in a poor country, something which Anatol completely glosses over to airbrush the many very negative effects of practically all American engagement with Pakistan so far. If you just read this book, without reading any of the other histories out there, you would walk away thinking that Pakistan pretty much ran the jihad against Russia and America and Saudi Arabia were just sparring buddies helping out Pakistan. Heck, even the movie Charlie Wilson's War will give you a better idea of that era than this book.
It fulfills it's purpose at the end - to justify to western politicians the need to continue engaging Pakistan and to stop thinking about it solely in terms of terrorism, but it would have been nice if Anatol could have managed to that too. He could have had a great book if he could have taken of this islamic terrorist glasses.
Still gets three stars because it's worth a read and Anatol has great insights into Pakistani politicians and how society is structured. And of course as the current hot Pakistan expert Anatol's viewpoints are important, more important than what may or may not be actually happening.
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