EAN: 9780316451567

A DOOR IN THE EARTH - AMY WALDMAN TASCHENBUCH

From the bestselling author of The Submission: A young Afghan-American woman is trapped between
her ideals and the complicated truth in this penetrating (O  Oprah Magazine)  stealthily
suspenseful  (Booklist  starred review)  breathtaking and achingly nuanced (Kirkus  starred
review) novel. Parveen Shams  a college senior in search of a calling  feels pulled between her
charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable
Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling
book called Mother Afghanistan  a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible
for American engagement in the country  she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience 
Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable
foundation. When she arrives  however  Crane's maternity clinic  while grandly equipped  is
mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And
Crane's memoir appears to be littered with mistakes  or outright fabrications. As the reasons
for Parveen's pilgrimage crumble beneath her  the U.S. military  also drawn by Crane's book 
turns up to pave the solde road to the village  bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal
ambush occurs  Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers
-- and she must determine her own relationship to the truth. Amy Waldman  who reported from
Afghanistan for the New York Times after 9 11  has created a taut  propulsive novel about power
perspective  and idealism  brushing aside the dust of America's longest-standing war to reveal
the complicated truths beneath. A Door in the Earth is the rarest of books  one that helps us
understand living history through poignant characters and unforgettable storytelling.

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