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Kabul Disco
By Nicolas Wild
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About the book
In 2005, Nicolas Wild, a wandering French writer, found a job and somewhere to live at the same time. The only problem was that the place was Kabul, in Afghanistan, a country left unstable after several destructive years of war. When the carefree young man arrived at a capital in crisis, his first mission was to write a comic book explaining the Afghan constitution to children. His second project was to work on a recruitment campaign for the Afghan army. Consequently, he became a privileged observer of the hesitant reconstruction of the country whilst leading the unusual life of a Western expat in Kabul. Gradually, he fell in love with the country and decided to extend his contract despite the risks of living in Afghanistan. Honest and perceptive, inquisitive and unsettling, this book casts an ironic yet affectionate look at the realities of a country that never strays far from the headlines.
Pages: 148
Available in: Hardback
Language: English
Nicolas Wild
Nicolas Wild is the author of several graphic novels, including Kabul Disco: How I Wasn’t Kidnapped in Afghanistan and Kabul Disco: How I Did Not Become an Opium Addict in Afghanistan. He lives in France.Edward Gauvin has received fellowships and residencies from PEN America, PEN England the NEA, the Fulbright program, the Lannan Foundation, the French Embassy, Villa Gillet, the Centre National du Livre, Ledig House, the Banff Centre, the Clarion Workshop, and the American Literary Translators Association. His work has won the John Dryden Translation Prize and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award, has been nominated for the French-American Foundation and Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prizes and shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other publications have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Subtropics, World Literature Today, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and Weird Fiction Review. The translator of almost two hundred graphic novels, he is a contributing editor for comics at Words Without Borders.