The World Is a Carpet : Four Seasons in an Afghan Village (Paperback)

from froxgirl

This novel's world is a vocabulary lesson, with new words to describe snow, the Hindu Kush, the dust in the road, the mud, and the misery that is village life in Northern Afghanistan. The hand weaving of rugs by women is one of the few sources of livelihood in this incredibly harsh region. The fo...

from debnance

Yes, sometimes the world is a carpet, but mostly it's not. This book is about a world that's not. You may think you have learned all about Afghanistan from the years our soldiers have spent time there, but this is not that Afghanistan. This is the Afghanistan experienced by the women who live the...

from abealy

Oqa cannot easily be found or reached and, in the long colorful history of Afghanistan, its story can be overlooked and undervalued. And yet the beautiful tale, woven by Anna Badkhen, in The World is a Carpet: Four Season in an Afghan Village is as rich in passion, human misery and glory as any s...

from igjoe

I enjoyed this book immensely. Anna Badkhen did a wonderful job of portraying her love of Afghanistan while being absorbed in its difficult war-torn history. It was very interesting, yet heartbreaking to read her account of the small village of Oqa. It was a lovely glimpse into a very different w...

from bayleaf

I really fought with a rating for this book. On the whole I loved it so much I wanted to give it a 5. The people and the village came alive for me (sometimes I wished for a list of the inhabitants, because I would become confused) and the way the author "wove" the concept of the carpet throughout...