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A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and its People

Af: Justin Marozzi Engelsk Hardback

A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and its People

Af: Justin Marozzi Engelsk Hardback
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In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the “War on Terror”, it has become synonymous above all with war and terrorism – from the Taliban to Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State – crushing levels of poverty and immiseration. In ways which would have been familiar to both Herodotus in the fourth century BC and Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth AD, it has also come to represent the latest testing ground for imperial hubris and overexpansion, another tomb in the “graveyard of empires”.

This is an extraordinarily reductive and one-dimensional portrait of a nation. Afghanistan is, and always has been, vastly more interesting than that. Its long and tumultuous history at the centre of the world, at the heart of cultural exchanges between East and West, encompasses high culture, low politics, domestic dynasties, international adventures, Great Power rivalry and a completely compelling vein of skulduggery.

This anthology will celebrate this rich, engrossing heritage with a captivating blend of history and geography, religion and culture, politics and poetry, drama and memoir, home-grown fiction and the self-serving literature of invaders. It will celebrate Afghan voices as much as those of foreigners who, for better or worse, have been bewitched by this staggeringly beautiful mountain kingdom.

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In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the “War on Terror”, it has become synonymous above all with war and terrorism – from the Taliban to Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State – crushing levels of poverty and immiseration. In ways which would have been familiar to both Herodotus in the fourth century BC and Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth AD, it has also come to represent the latest testing ground for imperial hubris and overexpansion, another tomb in the “graveyard of empires”.

This is an extraordinarily reductive and one-dimensional portrait of a nation. Afghanistan is, and always has been, vastly more interesting than that. Its long and tumultuous history at the centre of the world, at the heart of cultural exchanges between East and West, encompasses high culture, low politics, domestic dynasties, international adventures, Great Power rivalry and a completely compelling vein of skulduggery.

This anthology will celebrate this rich, engrossing heritage with a captivating blend of history and geography, religion and culture, politics and poetry, drama and memoir, home-grown fiction and the self-serving literature of invaders. It will celebrate Afghan voices as much as those of foreigners who, for better or worse, have been bewitched by this staggeringly beautiful mountain kingdom.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 720
ISBN-13: 9781803285351
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1803285354
Kategori: Antologier: generelt
Udg. Dato: 16 nov 2023
Længde: 61mm
Bredde: 244mm
Højde: 167mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 16 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Justin Marozzi
Forfatter(e) Justin Marozzi

Kategori Antologier: generelt

ISBN-13 9781803285351

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 720

Udgave

Længde 61mm

Bredde 244mm

Højde 167mm

Udg. Dato 16 nov 2023

Oplagsdato 16 nov 2023

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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