About the Author

David Chaffetz, educated at Harvard University, has written for scholarly journals and lectured extensively on the Middle East.

Reviews

"The best thing I have read for giving the feel of Afghanistan and its varied people, social classes, religious sects. . . . Chaffetz wins confidence with the easy simplicity of his narrative. . . . What emerges from a charmingly simple story . . . is the warning--at least to this reviewer--that one must be cautious about using the term 'Afghan nation' as it is used in the west."--Owen Lattimore "Washington Post Book World"