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Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays by Anna Badkhen
Category: Culture
Essays about migration, displacement, and the hope for connection in a time of emotional and geopolitical disruption by a Soviet-born writer and former war correspondent.Called a "chronicler of a world on the move" by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time ...Show more
Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories by Anna Badkhen
Category: Fiction
Travel books bring us to places. War books bring us to tragedy. This book brings us to one woman's travels in war zones: the locals she met, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate."Peace Meals "is a true story about conflict and food. It illustrates the most important lesson ...Show more
The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village by Anna Badkhen
Category: Culture
An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war. In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can't find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where he ...Show more
World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village by Anna Badkhen
Category: Biography
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 ...Show more
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