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Yhdeksän Tornin Linnake – Afgaanipojan Tarina (2013)

by Qais Akbar Omar(Favorite Author)

4.44 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava

review 1: One of the most important books I've ever read. Qais Omar has written a riveting memoir about life in Afghanistan through the three decades of pre/post-Russian invasion, Taliban control, and contemporary "occupation" by American and foreign forces. His true story is both heartbreaking and impossibly optimistic. It is filled with wonderful tales about his family and their journeys to escape war, tragic disappointments, and beautiful glimpses into Afghan culture and values. He gives a perspective I've never encountered before and makes me a bit ashamed that America seeks to impose ITS values on foreign lands where they don't belong. Honestly, this book is extraordinary.
review 2: A Fort of Nine Towers describes author Omar's experience as a boy and young adult gr... moreowing up in Afghanistan in the late 90s and early 2000s during the period of civil war, through the Taliban occupation, and the arrival of the Americans. The book is told from Omar's point of view, in luminous, lyrical, but never flowery prose. The voice transitions naturally between a more innocent point of view as a young boy and a more adult perspective. Omar's narrative voice maintains a sense of reverence and openness in the face of repeated tragedy and the day-to-day privations of wartime living. Alongside the riveting human story, Omar weaves in history, landscape, culture, family dynamics, and a coming-of-age narrative. Beautifully written, flowing, poetic and clear-eyed, this book takes a complex, violent, heart-wrenching experience of war and distills it into something beautiful and meaningful. less

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