Surviving Mayhem
Deb Mukharji
A FORT OF NINE TOWERS by Qais Akbar Omar Picador, New Delhi, 2014, 396 pp., £14.99
February 2014, volume 38, No 2

A Fort of Nine Towers is the vivid recollection of a young Afghan author, Qais Akbar Omar, from the last years of the Russians in Afghanistan to the tumultuous years of factional fighting and the eventual dark and suffocating rule of the Taliban. It ends with 9/11 and the return of dance and music to the streets of Kabul.

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