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Auteur(s) : Badkhen, Anna (1976-....)
Titre(s) : The world is a carpet [Texte imprimé] : four seasons in an Afghan village / Anna Badkhen
Publication : New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (271 p.) : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Comprend : The carpet ; The wedding ; The fast ; The blizzard.
Note(s) : "An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade,
and war. In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that
Google can't find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the
thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every
day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead--a sign of America's omnipotence or its vulnerability,
the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat--like a carpet.
Anna Badkhen first traveled to this country in 2001, as a war correspondent. She has
returned many times since, drawn by a land that geography has made a perpetual battleground,
and by a people who sustain an exquisite tradition there. Through the four seasons
in which a new carpet is woven by the women and children of Oqa, she immortalizes
their way of life much as the carpet does--from the petal half-finished where a hungry
infant needs care to the interruptions when the women trade sex jokes or go fill in
for wedding musicians scared away by the Taliban. As Badkhen follows the carpet out
into the world beyond, she leaves the reader with an indelible portrait of fates woven
by centuries of art, war, and an ancient trade that ultimately binds the invaded to
the invader"--
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Afghanistan -- 2000-....
Tissage -- Afghanistan
Moeurs et coutumes -- Afghanistan
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781594488320 (hardback). - ISBN 1594488320 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43611500r
Notice n° :
FRBNF43611500
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