Bücher von Tamim Ansary

Sinking the Ark is a historical novel set in Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. It tells the story of six characters working for the Rose City Ark, a counterculture newspaper founded in the Sixties. The charismatic founders are leaving, and the youngsters who inherit the paper see themselves as the next wave of visionaries. The trouble is, none of them know what the vision is. They can't base it on the ideals of the Sixties, that's the past. As for the future, who knows what that could be? In 1974, not a hint of it has come into view yet. Readers know what lies around the bend: cults, yuppies, computers, Reagan Revolution, political Islam, War on Terror, alternative facts, Conspiracy Theory-but the people of Ark see none of it yet. And so they set their course for a destination we know to be chimerical, a future that never came to be, and we laugh, and perhaps wipe away a tear or two, as we follow them on their quest.

A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilisations and cultural movements and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today.

Tamim Ansary's passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict, West of Kabul, East of New York.Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative Christians and talk-show hosts; for the message, written in twenty minutes, was one Ansary had been writing all his life. West of Kabul, East of New York is an urgent communiqué by an American with "an Afghan soul still inside me," who has lived in the very different worlds of Islam and the secular West. The son of an Afghan man and the first American woman to live as an Afghan, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life, one never seen by outsiders. No sooner had he emigrated to San Francisco than he was drawn into the community of Afghan expatriates sustained by the dream of returning to their country -and then drawn back to the Islamic world himself to discover the nascent phenomenon of militant religious fundamentalism.Tamim Ansary has emerged as one of the most eloquent voices on the conflict between Islam and the West. His book is a deeply personal account of the struggle to reconcile two great civilizations and to find some point in the imagination where they might meet.