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Kandahar Cockney - A Tale of Two Worlds (Paperback)
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Kandahar Cockney - A Tale of Two Worlds (Paperback)
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The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between
the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun
interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their
friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London's East End.
In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British
correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in
rebel-controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with
Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the
country's complex politics, culture and traditions. Not long after
James's return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee
Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. When Mir arrives in London
seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Now their
roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir
to the bewildering customs of the infidel West. Yet in many ways it
is Mir who remains the guide - this time to a side of his own
homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. He
discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London,
and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work.
He accompanies Mir through the labyrinthine asylum system, with its
endless round of tribunals, appeals, delays and disappointments;
and introduces him to the important things in life like Tesco's,
bank holiday weekends and the seaside. James Fergusson's moving and
remarkable portrait of a singular friendship gives a human face to
one of the most tangled and emotive issues of our time. Powerfully
evoking the no-man's land between the Third and the First Worlds,
between Islam and the West, 'Kandahar Cockney' also places a very
contemporary story in a greater historical context, showing how
surprisingly enduring the legacy of Britain's colonial era really
is.
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