Author: | M. Hassan Alief | ISBN: | 9781456800260 |
Publisher: | Xlibris US | Publication: | November 29, 2010 |
Imprint: | Xlibris US | Language: | English |
Author: | M. Hassan Alief |
ISBN: | 9781456800260 |
Publisher: | Xlibris US |
Publication: | November 29, 2010 |
Imprint: | Xlibris US |
Language: | English |
In this fiction, Stuart Lovelace Sr. served as the first American emissary in Afghanistan. Jason their younger son was kidnapped in Afghanistan where he grew up as Hassan and an Afghan and a Muslim. Due to the assassination of King Nadir Shah at that time and the political turmoil that ensued, the Lovelaces had to leave the country without their son, Jason. And thus Stuart grew up apart from his brother as an American and Christian in Colorado, USA. Some seventy years later, by a stroke of luck, Hassan and Stuart found each other at the Optimist Club of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where they both were members. It is a fascinating story of East and West and the way of life in the 1930s and later in the US and Afghanistan. The book also chronicles the hardships people faced travelling half way around the world in the 1930s.
In this fiction, Stuart Lovelace Sr. served as the first American emissary in Afghanistan. Jason their younger son was kidnapped in Afghanistan where he grew up as Hassan and an Afghan and a Muslim. Due to the assassination of King Nadir Shah at that time and the political turmoil that ensued, the Lovelaces had to leave the country without their son, Jason. And thus Stuart grew up apart from his brother as an American and Christian in Colorado, USA. Some seventy years later, by a stroke of luck, Hassan and Stuart found each other at the Optimist Club of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where they both were members. It is a fascinating story of East and West and the way of life in the 1930s and later in the US and Afghanistan. The book also chronicles the hardships people faced travelling half way around the world in the 1930s.