Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan

Fariba Nawa

Jun 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Holly Adams

About this audiobook

An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart-from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides-while revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land. Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal exploration of Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides and beyond. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation "an insightful and informative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa weaves her personal story of reconnecting with her homeland after 9/11 with a very engaging narrative that chronicles Afghanistan's dangerous descent into opium trafficking . . . and most revealingly, how the drug trade has damaged the lives of ordinary Afghan people." Readers of Gayle Lemmon Tzemach's The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and Rory Stewart's The Places Between will find Nawa's personal, piercing, journalistic tale to be an indispensable addition to the cultural criticism covering this dire global crisis.

About the author

Fariba Nawa has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, the Sunday Times Magazine (London), Newsday, and the Village Voice. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters.

Holly Adams is a classically trained, award-winning actor and narrator who loves every single thing about stories and the beings that inhabit them. As a narrator, Holly specializes in action-adventure/fantasy, mysteries/thrillers, and the subtle comfort of self-help nonfiction.