by James A. Michener
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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