**"A lushly romantic adventure story set in the North African desert in 1914, told by the impeccable Lady Treal as she reminisces in her London town house about her decidedly peccable past . . . Well-written, expertly plotted, perfectly paced." --_Newsday_ ** With her anthropologist husband murd
Caravans A Novel of Afghanistan
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- Book ID
- 107188588
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From the Inside Flap
In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she wishes, not even she is sure what that means. In the meantime, she is as good as lost in that wild land, perhaps forever....
"An extraordinary novel....Brilliant."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
From the Paperback edition.
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