{"product_id":"the-long-road-to-hope-isbn-9780711278226","title":"The Long Road to Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn a tale of intense courage and unimaginable pain, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Road to Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is the timely autobiography of Mohammed Nabi, an Afghan interpreter who worked for the Canadian and British forces on the frontline in Helmand Province from 2008-2011.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaised on the frontline\u003c\/b\u003e. Interrogated and\u003cb\u003e tortured\u003c\/b\u003e when only a teenager. \u003cb\u003eShot at by RPGs\u003c\/b\u003e while on duty. \u003cb\u003eHunted down by the Taliban\u003c\/b\u003e. Living as a \u003cb\u003ehomeless refugee \u003c\/b\u003eon the streets of Athens, \u003cb\u003eseparated from his wife and family.\u003c\/b\u003e These are the experiences of \u003cb\u003eMohammed Nabi, an Afghan interpreter\u003c\/b\u003e who worked with British and Canadian troops during the occupation of Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this story of\u003cb\u003e a life and a nation ravaged by war,\u003c\/b\u003e Nabi, working in collaboration with journalist Anastasia Miari, gives a\u003cb\u003e passionate and heart-wrenching account\u003c\/b\u003e of living through the violence and conflict of modern day Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From his early life growing up in a remote village where brutal local warlords kept dancing boys as slaves, to witnessing, and initially celebrating the rise of the Taliban, to working with and befriending western forces in his role as an interpreter, this\u003cb\u003e powerful, intense first-hand account\u003c\/b\u003e lays out the \u003cb\u003estruggles of a man fighting to survive\u003c\/b\u003e in the midst of \u003cb\u003eextreme danger on a daily basis\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book covers his three years working as an interpreter, facing \u003cb\u003egunfire and rocket attacks\u003c\/b\u003e as he worked alongside troops on the frontline and \u003cb\u003ewitnessing scores of colleagues be killed\u003c\/b\u003e, before charting his life after this, living in fear of the threat of \u003cb\u003ebrutal Taliban reprisals\u003c\/b\u003e, at one point \u003cb\u003ebarely escaping with his life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He fled Afghanistan in 2015 and lived \u003cb\u003ehomeless on the streets of Athens\u003c\/b\u003e, where he met co-author Anastasia Miari, before eventually being accepted into a refugee camp, where he was powerless to witness the traumatic scenes of Afghanistan unravelling before his eyes. Recently granted asylum, Nabi is still\u003cb\u003e separated from his wife and children in Afghanistan\u003c\/b\u003e, and is desperately fighting to extract them from Kabul where they remain trapped under Taliban rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This \u003cb\u003eessential account \u003c\/b\u003ewill \u003cb\u003emove readers to tears \u003c\/b\u003ewith its emotional depiction of the \u003cb\u003etragedy of the ongoing violence and conflict in Afghanistan\u003c\/b\u003e, as Nabi recount sthe dreadful realities of life as a translator on the frontlines of modern history's most brutal and enduring conflict.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Aurum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891954643173,"sku":"NP9780711278226","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-long-road-to-hope-isbn-9780711278226","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}