Kara Kush: A Novel of Afghanistan - Tapa dura

Adam Durany, Afghan-born and American-schooled, returns to his homeland to lead his people against the Soviet atrocities and communist infiltration that threaten to annihilate the country and its dream of modernisation. As the rebel guerrilla, Kara Kush, Adam rallies his followers, the ill-equipped patriots to fight back. Based on facts and eye-witness accounts of real-life participants of the war, this riveting and fast-paced novel offers huge insights into the country of Afghanistan, its people, its history and its traditions.

Idries Shah (1924-1996), whose family lived in Afghanistan for a thousand years, is an internationally known authority on the region and his books on Sufism are considered seminal. The Sufis, first published in 1964, is a first-of-its-kind modern statement on Sufism. Shah is the author of more than twenty books and has a readership spanning East and West.