Caravans
In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she...
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In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she wishes, not even she is sure what that means. In the meantime, she is as good as lost in that wild land, perhaps forever...."An extraordinary novel....Brilliant."THE NEW YORK TIMESFrom the Paperback edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780812969825 (0812969820)
Publish date: September 9th 2003
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Asia
On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attaché at the American embassy in Kabul.If one can block out the fact that the chase story is completely implausible then there is some very interesting stuff to consider. Interesting, worrying and brutal.
I bought this book after loving Michener's Hawaii, hoping for a similarly wonderful reading experience. I was disappointed. The best I can say is that I learned some things--the book takes you around Afghanistan in the 1940s, introducing a variety of places and cultures and including pertinent histo...
James Michener was such an amazing man. Intrepid adventurer, brilliant scholar, prolific author. We shan't see the likes of him again, more's the pity. He traveled extensively in Afghanistan prior to writing this novel. I don't envy him the physical discomfort that must have entailed, but I loved...
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