Not up to the level of some of Michener's finer efforts. ( )

Good read. Very different than what you'd normally think of in a Michener book. This is a story that takes place just at one period in time. Its about a young American diplomat in Kabul Afghanistan in 1946. Prophetic read on the situation in Afghanist ( )

The scene is Afghanistn in 1946. There were times I identified with Ellen, the American girl that left a small “proper” town to marry an Afghan, and later to live with a nomadic tribe. I liked the thoughts expressed from viewpoints of American-educated Afghans, Americans in Afghanistan, highly intelligent/political leader of a nomadic caravan, and more typical Afghans. A variety of political, social, and spiritual views. Also a German doctor exciled due to persecution of Jews…war crimes, including his later relationship with a Jew and the Jew to him. GREAT BOOK! ( )