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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 circle of relatives and home. Thus begins Crossing the River Kabul, the actual story of Popal’s escape from Afghanistan and his eventual return.
Kevin McLean weaves together Popal’s stories in this memoir, which could also be an enchanting have a look at Afghanistan from the standpoint of Popal and generations of his politically influential circle of relatives. From the exile of Popal’s grandfather from Kandahar in 1898 to his father’s tutoring of two boys who as adults would play important roles in Afghanistan—one as king and the other as president—to his uncle’s presence at the fateful meeting that led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Popal’s circle of relatives history is intertwined with that of his nation.
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 US 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, ceaselessly humorous portrait of the vanished Afghanistan of his childhood. It is usually the story of a father whose greatest desire is to see his son follow in his footsteps, and a son who repeatedly 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 weaves together Popal’s stories in this memoir, which could also be an enchanting have a look at Afghanistan from the standpoint of Popal and generations of his politically influential circle of relatives. From the exile of Popal’s grandfather from Kandahar in 1898 to his father’s tutoring of two boys who as adults would play important roles in Afghanistan—one as king and the other as president—to his uncle’s presence at the fateful meeting that led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Popal’s circle of relatives history is intertwined with that of his nation.
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 US 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, ceaselessly humorous portrait of the vanished Afghanistan of his childhood. It is usually the story of a father whose greatest desire is to see his son follow in his footsteps, and a son who repeatedly rebels against his father’s wishes. Crossing the River Kabul is a story of choice and destiny, fear and courage, and loss and redemption.
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