The World Is A Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village

by Anna Badkhen

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An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.

In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can’t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead—a sign of America’s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat—like a carpet.

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  • ISBN10 1594632677
  • ISBN13 9781594632679
  • Publish Date 3 June 2014 (first published 30 May 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)