[bksvol-discuss] Another Michener BSO
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:11:32 -0500
Hi all,
I've just submitted for validation another BSO from the wish list--Caravans:
A Novel of Afghanistan by James A. Michener.
The usual prevalidation has been done--headers stripped; page numbers and
chapter titles protected. Ranked spelling over 99%. 341 pages plus
preliminary pages.
[Book jacket]
Ellen Jaspar, native of Dorset, Pennsylvania, recently married to an Afghan
engineer, has not been heard from for thirteen months. The job of finding
her falls to a young member of the staff of the American Embassy in Kabul,
Afghanistan- Mark Miller, who is the narrator of this extraordinary novel.
The time: March, 1946. This is a sensitive assignment, requiring tact and
patience, but apparently unexciting. His search, however, involves Mark
Miller in a series of unexpected and perilous adventures, and takes him to
wild and remote parts of the ancient kingdom. What he finds out about the
missing girl, about himself, about the past and present of a fabulous
country, and about Mira, the beautiful nomad girl who teaches him many
things-these and many other discoveries the reader also makes and shares
intimately with him. Afghanistan, where the ancient and modern worlds exist
side by side, is an especially appropriate setting for Mr. Michener's drama
of our times. In 1946, when many aspects of the country were not too
different from what Alexander the Great found there in the fourth century
b.c., Afghanistan was seething with the forces that would soon erupt to
bring it fully into the twentieth century. Caravans is that artful
combination readers have learned to expect from Mr. Michener: a compelling
and significant story, set vividly against a real background that gives a
true sense of history and of place.
Deborah
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