The Darling of Kandahar

Download or read book The Darling of Kandahar written by Felicia Mihali and published by Linda Leith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman poses for the cover of a magazine. A Canadian soldier serving in Kandahar falls in love with her photograph and sends her an email. The Darling of Kandahar tells an astonishing story of love, loss, and displacement against the background of the war in Afghanistan, of the founding of the city of Montreal and of a city now crowded with immigrants. When Felicia Mihalis first novel appeared in French in 2002, it was compared to Marie-Claire Blaiss masterpiece, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel. Making her English-language dbut with The Darling of Kandahar, Mihali now joins Nancy Huston as one of the few writers working in English as well as French.