A Fort of Nine Towers

by Oais Akbar Omar

Picador, Pan Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 9781447229827, large format paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, uncreased spine (See photographs)

“A Fort of Nine Towers, named for the place his parents first south shelter from war, is the story of Qais’s family and their remarkable survival.  When the fighting came, this group of tenacious and deeply loving people was buffeted from one part of Afghanistan to the next, like kittens in the jaws of a lion’.  They set up camp on the plains, in the Buddha caves of Bamiyan, and later with Kuchi nomads, begore they were finally able to return to Kabul – where in many senses their trials were just beginning.”