EAN: 9780316451567

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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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