First published in 1963, James A. Michenerโs gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistanโs remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past.
*Praise for Caravans _
โBrilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.โ*โ The New York Times_**
โRomantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.โโNewsday _
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โMichener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.โ*โ The New York Herald Tribune_*
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Review
โBrilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.โ*โThe New York Times _
โRomantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.โ*โ Newsday_**
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โMichener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.โ**โ The New York Herald Tribune **
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
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