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A Bittersweet Portrait Of Afghanistan

The book's use of poetry highlights the universality of human experience

By Christina Leadlay

Published April 27, 2005

A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan

By Nelofer Pazira

Random House Canada

408 pp., $34.95

"This book is not about me, really," says Nelofer Pazira of A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan, a partly historical, partly autobiographical account of life in Afghanistan prior to the infamous Taliban rule. "I wanted to talk about the history of...

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