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Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. Objects Of Translation (Hb) by HUBERT HADDAD
French Writings on India and South Asia
‘Again and again they ask his name. The first time, some people sitting down had recited all the names beginning with the letter, A. For no reason at all, they had stopped at Alam.’
Alam is an Afghan child-soldier, child-refugee. Life is harsh, fragile and fleeting for him. Spanning two continents, with opium fields and deserted Parisian ghettos as backdrops, Opium Poppy lays bare the devastated lives of war- torn children. Hubert Haddad holds up the broken lives of these children in prose that the reader will find difficult to forget.