The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq [in Shelf Awareness]
22 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Canadian, Fiction, Repost
In her extraordinary fiction debut, The Opium Prince, Afghan Swedish academic and communications expert Jasmine Aimaq, who lives in Canada, combines elements of literary thriller, sociopolitical exposé, and historical witnessing. The Afghan people lived in relative – albeit tense – balance between the 1973 coup d'etat...