Crashing entering the saloon tale of 2 wastelands

вЂA unique journey into the terrifying life of an asylum seeker in LondonвЂ¦God knows, we need writers and such books to describe the desperate dispossessed who crawl to this islandвЂ¦a cracking story his writing is clear and intimateвЂ™ вЂFergussonвЂ™s sensitivity to his themes and the congruity of prose and dialogue give Kandabar Cockney the flavour of a novelвЂ¦a richly entertaining, artful slice of journalism that turns a potentially miserable subject into a penetrating comedy of cultural valuesвЂ™

вЂFunny, pacy, illuminatingвЂ¦it really is as good as everyoneвЂ™s saying. Powerfully evoking the no-man's land between the Third and the First Worlds, between Islam and the West, вЂKandahar CockneyвЂ™ also places a very contemporary story in a greater historical context, showing how surprisingly enduring the legacy of BritainвЂ™s colonial era really is. He accompanies Mir through the labyrinthine asylum system, with its endless round of tribunals, appeals, delays and disappointments and introduces him to the important things in life like TescoвЂ™s, bank holiday weekends and the seaside.James FergussonвЂ™s moving and remarkable portrait of a singular friendship gives a human face to one of the most tangled and emotive issues of our time. He discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London, and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work. Now their roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir to the bewildering customs of the infidel West.Yet in many ways it is Mir who remains the guide вЂ“ this time to a side of his own homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. When Mir arrives in London seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Not long after JamesвЂ™s return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. They soon become firm friends, with Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the country's complex politics, culture and traditions. The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in LondonвЂ™s East End.In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel-controlled Afghanistan.

Crashing entering the saloon tale of 2 wastelands