**A true-life _Catch-22_ set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region's longest-serving correspondents. ** Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent--she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward n
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
β Scribed by Barker, Kim
- Book ID
- 106910095
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385533324
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