The world is a carpet : four seasons in an Afghan village
Badkhen, Anna, 1976-2014
Books, Manuscripts
Anna Badkhen first travelled to Afghanistan in 2001 as a war correspondent. She has returned many times since, drawn by a land that geography has made a perpetual battleground, and by a people who sustain an exquisite tradition there. Through the four seasons in which a new carpet is woven by the women and children of Oqa, she immortalises their way of life much as the carpet does - from the petal half-finished where a hungry infant needs care to the interruptions when the women trade sex jokes or go fill in for wedding musicians scared away by the Taliban.
Main title:
The world is a carpet : four seasons in an Afghan village / Anna Badkhen.
Author:
Badkhen, Anna, 1976-, author
Imprint:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2014.New York : Riverhead Books, 2014.
Collation:
288 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781594632679 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.409581
Local class:
305.409581
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1661569