A Fort of Nine Towers Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-05-09 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Macmillan Hardback Omes With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner. this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan. by a writer who still lives in Kabul. Qais Akbar Omars young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war. the rise of the Taliban. and the arrival of international troops in 2001. A Fort of Nine Towers. named for the place his parents first sought shelter from war. is the story of Qais 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 at Bamiyan. and later with Kuchi nomads. before they were finally able to return to Kabul...Read More