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    Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan

    Written by James A. Michener

    Narrated by Larry McKeever

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    About this audiobook

    First published in 1963, James A. Michener's gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan's remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781101922156
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    • 3/5
      Atypical Michener, set in Afghanistan in 1946.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorites. I first read this as an adventure story in my early 2o's. It is an interesting take on Afghanistan and nomads 60 yrs ago and pertinent today.
    • 5/5
      This book is very unlike the majority of Michener's books. This is a relatively short story - but a very good one. While I don't shy away from long books, many of his can drag on. This is therefore a refreshing change. It paints a very interesting view of Afghanistan. Here you can get a sense of what it may have been like before the craziness of constant wars over the last decades.
    • 4/5
      I'm a huge Michener fan and this book, while out of the norm for Michener, was nonetheless enjoyable. Young American, Ellen Jasper marries a young Afghan engineer (already having an Afghan wife) and moves to Afghanistan. Her parents do not hear from her for 17 months and fear the worst. It is the job of 26 year old American ambassador Mark Miller to locate her. Mark is thrown in with a German Nazi doctor, a tribal camel herder, and a whole host of other interesting characters. This book's setting is vague, but I would guess about 1950's-1960's as it was sometime after the Nuremberg Trials and before the invasion of Russia. Besides learning a lot of Afghan history, I also learned a lot of culture. 449 pages
    • 3/5
      Moves quickly and gives you a few engaging (if slightly caricatured) people to follow. A good slap dash adventure to give you a sense of the diversity and complicated history (esp cold war geopolitics) of Afghanistan, but by no means an authoritative history or "accurate" version. In fact, these days it tells us more about the ambitions and obsessions of imperial-minded Americans than anything else.
    • 4/5
      Must state right off that I am a huge fan of Michener. This title, however, I felt started off as classic Michener with wonderful portrayals of the country and culture of Afghanistan. Something happened about three-fourths of the way through and the focus turned on some really self-centered and unlikable characters.Amazing that this book was published in 1963 but so much sounds exactly like what we hear on the news today. Names of places heard on the evening news such as Kandahar and Kabul are vividly drawn. The culture of the places in the late 1940's helps explain much of how the situation today developed. Michener writes about women in the chaderi (which we have come to know as the burqa), the Mullahs, and the extreme violence toward women. All of that was fascinating and I simply couldn't put the book down.The book follows Miller, the main character sent from America to find a "lost" American woman named Ellen who married an Afghan. His reactions to the other "ferangi" (foreigners) is interesting and enlightening. The sad part is that he finds Ellen. From then on I felt a shift to her as the focus of the story. I just could not buy into this Bryn Mawr collegiate hiking all over the country with a group of nomads looking so lovely and jumping from one "free" man to one even in her eyes "freer." The German Nazi Dr. Stiglitz comes across as much more believable but his relationship to Ellen just turns the entire novel into somewhat of a soap opera.That said, I still would recommend the book for anyone wanting to get a better understanding of Afghanistan and its vast amount of history.
    • 3/5
      Michener's foray into the drug-addled 60s.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful tale of an American girl in Afghanistan in the aftermath of WW2. A wonderful work that is yet to reach it’s full potential among worldwide readers.
    • 4/5
      This is an exciting tale of crossing Afghanistan's desert with danger from nature and nomads and politics. Informative about the times leading up to current events.
    • 4/5
      When I was a teenager I loved devouring the epic historical novels of Mitchener, in the last 20 years though I have found most of his work lacking character and depth. However this book is an exception, I first read this book in 2002 as Western troops we're entering afghanistan. It was striking to me how similar the Afghanistan of the 40's Mitchner described was to the Afghanistan of the 2000's the reporters we're describing. I have to admit I loved this book, I loved the story, which yes upon a second reading was a bit sappy but I'm a sucker for people leaving this crazy modern world and going native. I also loved the glimpse of Afghan society Mitchner provides with this book.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyed reading this book.. good descriptions.
    • 3/5
      Not up to the level of some of Michener's finer efforts.
    • 5/5
      Good read. Very different than what you'd normally think of in a Michener book. This is a story that takes place just at one period in time. Its about a young American diplomat in Kabul Afghanistan in 1946. Prophetic read on the situation in Afghanist