Heroes of the Age Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier

"This is a wonderful, absorbing, moving book."--Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis "An original and significant work that is beautifully written and passionately engaged with material that is fascinating from start to finish. It is one of the best first books I have read in a long, long time."--Steven Caton, New School for Social Research "A telling analytical juxtaposition of texts in family oral history, saint's legend, autobiography, and edict, amounting to a new approach to Middle Eastern discourse analysis and social history."--Margaret Mills, University of Pennsylvania "This book, sophisticated, lucid, and compassionate, should be read by more than specialists in Afghanistan. For them, undoubtedly, it is a must."--American Historical Review "In the refugee camps of PakistanÉ dispossessed Afghan men, seeking to retain some purchase on their past, told stories of great heroes and epic battle of the last century. Edwards provided an audience for these narratives and uses them as the centerpiece for his striking portrait of this much brutalized societyÉ. In this fine book David Edwards has raised disturbing and important questions about the very nature of culture and of morality."--American AnthropologistEdwards, David B. is the author of 'Heroes of the Age Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier' with ISBN 9780520200647 and ISBN 0520200640.