Jamil Ahmad’s novel The Wandering Falcon is an elegy for a disappearing way of life in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But where most stories of that sort explain the loss of a culture by saying that the march of progress cannot be stopped, there’s no progress in The Wandering Falcon. There’s simply the slow increase of the power of the state in the middle of the 20th century, ending one harsh way of life without replacing the conditions that made it so harsh. Ahmad—a 79-year-old man whose own life experience is reflected in this ...
- 10/26/2011
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