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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ali Eteraz's *Children of Dust *is a spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine. From his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan to his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife, this lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity. *Children of Dust *begins in rural Islam at the lowest levels of Pakistani society in the turbulent eighties. This intimate portrayal of rustic village life is revealed through a young boy's eyes as he discovers magic, women, and friendship. After immigrating with his family to the United States, Eteraz struggles to be a normal American teenager under the rules of a strict Muslim household. In 1999, he returns to Pakistan to find the villages of his youth dominated by the ideology of the Taliban, filled with young men spouting militant rhetoric, and his extended family under threat. Eteraz becomes the target of a mysterious abduction plot when he is purported to be a CIA agent, and eventually has to escape under military escort. Back in the United States, with his fundamentalist illusions n

Who reads Children of Dust : A Memoir of Pakistan?

Author

Ali Eteraz

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061626852

Category

religious

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.53 / 5 (409 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14