Where Is the Canadian Fiction about Afghanistan?
Canadians are far from squeamish in our literary tastes, but novels about the country where we were once at war are rare
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Blood Washing Blood: Afghanistan's Hundred-Year War
Afghanistan is often imagined by North Americans to be either an inferno of endless turmoil and repression of women or a rest stop for hippies seeking enlightenment, drugs, and groovy carpets. In our popular imagination, the country remains frozen in a narrow framework of misperception and dismissal as a failed state. Canadian novelist Phil Halton ( This Shall Be a House of Peace), a former military officer and enthusiastic world traveller, aims to change that misconception with his political history, Blood Washing Blood, a reflection on why Afghanistan seems mired in a pattern of bloodshed,...
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