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West of Kabul, East of New York

An Afghan American StoryBy Tamim AnsaryRecorded Track
Length8h 1m

About this audiobook

The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message reached millions. Born to an Afghan father and American mother, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life. When he emigrated to San Francisco, he believed he’d left Afghan culture behind forever. But at the height of the Iranian Revolution, he took a harrowing journey through the Islamic world to rediscover his roots. In the years that followed, he struggled to unite his divided self and to find a place in his imagination where his Afghan and American identities might meet. Here in his own words is one man’s personal journey through two cultures in conflict.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.0 (2.5K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreBiography and Memoir, Psychology
Length8 hrs 1 min
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish

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