Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey
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Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey

Crossing the River Kabul: An Afghan Family Odyssey

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Kevin McLean (Author)  

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Baryalai Popal sees his Western-educated professors at Kabul University replaced by communists. He witnesses his classmates "disappearing." The communist takeover uproots Popal from his family and home. Thus begins Crossing the River Kabul, the true story of Popal's escape from Afghanistan and his eventual return. Popal fled his country following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. After being imprisoned as a spy in Pakistan, he managed to make his way to Germany as a refugee and to the United States as an immigrant. Twenty years later he returned to Afghanistan after 9/11 to reclaim his houses, only to find one controlled by drug lords and the other by the most powerful warlord in Afghanistan. Popal's memoir is an intimate, often humorous portrait of the vanished Afghanistan of his childhood. It is also the story of a father whose greatest desire is to see his son follow in his footsteps, and a son who constantly rebels against his father's wishes. Crossing the River Kabul is a story of choice and destiny, fear and courage, and loss and redemption.
Kevin McLean practiced law in Boston and San Diego.
  • Contributor: Kevin McLean
  • Imprint: Potomac Books Inc
  • ISBN13: 9781612348971
  • Number of Pages: 264
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x228mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
  • Release Date: 2017-06-01
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Kevin McLean practiced law in Boston and San Diego.

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