This is the new FOURTH EDITION of SIKANDER. Winner of the Grand
Prizes in each of the 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival and the 2011
Paris Book Festival, SIKANDER is the tale of the son of a Pakistani
middle-class family. It's 1986. Seventeen-year-old Sikander, dreams
of studying and living in America, but after a family quarrel, he
leaves his Peshawar, Pakistan home. Encountering mujahideen
warriors, he joins them in their fight against the occupying
Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan. American assistance is stepped
up with advanced weapons, like the Stinger missile, and the
mujahideen are able to neutralize the Soviet military advantage.
After just two years following Sikander's arrival, a Soviet
withdrawal begins. Amid the turmoil, Sikander finds love and
marries a young, sharp-witted Afghan village girl. With the
fighting all but over, the couple decide to move to Sikander's
Pakistan home where he hopes to reconcile with his family. But his
dream of living in America endures. It's a dream that is shattered
in the aftermath of 9/11 and in seeking to help his Afghan
relatives, Sikander, now a successful entrepreneur, finds himself
on an unavoidable collision course with the America of his dreams.
SIKANDER takes us from the pricey suburbs of Peshawar to the
primitive war-torn landscape of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, to the
placid serenity of Scotland, through the camps of Guantanamo, and
finally, corporate America. It is a 21 year journey through freedom
and captivity, love and loss, wealth and poverty, dignity and
humiliation, and transgression and redemption. A rare glimpse of a
non-radical mainstream Muslim's experience of the West, SIKANDER is
a journey of growth, self-discovery, and hope. It will touch the
humanity of its readers. Along with the two Grand Prizes, SIKANDER
has collected numerous other awards inkling Best Fiction in the
Hollywood Book Festival and the Beach Book Festival and Best
Multicultural Fiction in the National Indie Excellence Book Awards
for 2011.
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