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Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds
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Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds
James Fergusson
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London’s East End.In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel-controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the country's complex politics, culture and traditions. Not long after James’s return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. When Mir arrives in London seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Now their roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir to the bewildering customs of the infidel West.Yet in many ways it is Mir who remains the guide – this time to a side of his own homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. He discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London, and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work. He accompanies Mir through the labyrinthine asylum system, with its endless round of tribunals, appeals, delays and disappointments; and introduces him to the important things in life like Tesco’s, bank holiday weekends and the seaside.James Fergusson’s moving and remarkable portrait of a singular friendship gives a human face to one of the most tangled and emotive issues of our time. Powerfully evoking the no-man's land between the Third and the First Worlds, between Islam and the West, ‘Kandahar Cockney’ also places a very contemporary story in a greater historical context, showing how surprisingly enduring the legacy of Britain’s colonial era really is.
Kandahar Cockney
A Tale of Two Worlds
James Fergusson
Praise (#ulink_72e652fa-a471-5fcf-8c43-2e049fc4065b)
From the reviews of Kandahar Cockney:
‘Funny, pacy, illuminating…it really is as good as everyone’s saying. I recommend it hugely’
JAMES DELINGPOLE, Mail on Sunday
‘Fergusson’s sensitivity to his themes and the congruity of prose and dialogue give Kandabar Cockney the flavour of a novel…a richly entertaining, artful slice of journalism that turns a potentially miserable subject into a penetrating comedy of cultural values’
WILL COHU, Daily Telegraph
‘A unique journey into the terrifying life of an asylum seeker in London…God knows, we need writers and such books to describe the desperate dispossessed who crawl to this island…a cracking story; his writing is clear and intimate’
YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN, Independent
‘Tender and entertaining, Kandahar Cockney manages to span some of the great divides of our age – between migrant and native, the developed and developing world, Islam and the West’
PHILIP MARSDEN, TLS
‘First-class…Fergusson always notices the right things, and describes them in a way that leaves a reviewer thinking “I wish I’d written that”’
MATTHEW LEEMING, Literary Review
‘A book which should be read by anyone who wants to know the meaning of modern exile’
SUSANNAH HERBERT, Sunday Telegraph
‘A moving and intelligent book. Culture-clash is an old theme: but few people have done it better, and fewer have taken such trouble to explore their own cities in order to find it’
Economist
TO OUR PARENTS
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#ue56b09a6-9151-5f28-a471-ad25a20eeab6)
Title Page (#ue437f235-daae-562c-848a-3d7813a012a3)
Praise (#ud5145367-a820-52cf-8cb8-e9134812d16d)
Author’s Note (#ud43dfcf9-c86e-5401-8745-1cc4ad760a6a)
Prologue The Old Bailey, Winter 2002 (#uf21634e7-a787-5fce-a689-1a9e6f09c1b7)
1 London, May 1998 (#u2e7f14d6-f20d-582a-9c04-b556b008e07f)
2 June–December 1998 (#u0059c77e-b7c1-545a-8c4e-003d5f573cae)
3 January 1999–August 2000 (#litres_trial_promo)
4 June 2000–September 2001 (#litres_trial_promo)
5 September 2001–September 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Pakistan, October 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
7 Afghanistan, October 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
8 London, November 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
P.S. (#litres_trial_promo)
About the author (#litres_trial_promo)
Profile of James Fergusson Alex Linklater (#litres_trial_promo)
Life at a Glance (#litres_trial_promo)
Top Ten Books (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Book (#litres_trial_promo)
A Critical Eye (#litres_trial_promo)
Update (#litres_trial_promo)
Read on (#litres_trial_promo)
If You Loved This, You Might Like… (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
James Fergusson
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London’s East End.In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel-controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the country's complex politics, culture and traditions. Not long after James’s return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. When Mir arrives in London seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Now their roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir to the bewildering customs of the infidel West.Yet in many ways it is Mir who remains the guide – this time to a side of his own homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. He discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London, and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work. He accompanies Mir through the labyrinthine asylum system, with its endless round of tribunals, appeals, delays and disappointments; and introduces him to the important things in life like Tesco’s, bank holiday weekends and the seaside.James Fergusson’s moving and remarkable portrait of a singular friendship gives a human face to one of the most tangled and emotive issues of our time. Powerfully evoking the no-man's land between the Third and the First Worlds, between Islam and the West, ‘Kandahar Cockney’ also places a very contemporary story in a greater historical context, showing how surprisingly enduring the legacy of Britain’s colonial era really is.
Kandahar Cockney
A Tale of Two Worlds
James Fergusson
Praise (#ulink_72e652fa-a471-5fcf-8c43-2e049fc4065b)
From the reviews of Kandahar Cockney:
‘Funny, pacy, illuminating…it really is as good as everyone’s saying. I recommend it hugely’
JAMES DELINGPOLE, Mail on Sunday
‘Fergusson’s sensitivity to his themes and the congruity of prose and dialogue give Kandabar Cockney the flavour of a novel…a richly entertaining, artful slice of journalism that turns a potentially miserable subject into a penetrating comedy of cultural values’
WILL COHU, Daily Telegraph
‘A unique journey into the terrifying life of an asylum seeker in London…God knows, we need writers and such books to describe the desperate dispossessed who crawl to this island…a cracking story; his writing is clear and intimate’
YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN, Independent
‘Tender and entertaining, Kandahar Cockney manages to span some of the great divides of our age – between migrant and native, the developed and developing world, Islam and the West’
PHILIP MARSDEN, TLS
‘First-class…Fergusson always notices the right things, and describes them in a way that leaves a reviewer thinking “I wish I’d written that”’
MATTHEW LEEMING, Literary Review
‘A book which should be read by anyone who wants to know the meaning of modern exile’
SUSANNAH HERBERT, Sunday Telegraph
‘A moving and intelligent book. Culture-clash is an old theme: but few people have done it better, and fewer have taken such trouble to explore their own cities in order to find it’
Economist
TO OUR PARENTS
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#ue56b09a6-9151-5f28-a471-ad25a20eeab6)
Title Page (#ue437f235-daae-562c-848a-3d7813a012a3)
Praise (#ud5145367-a820-52cf-8cb8-e9134812d16d)
Author’s Note (#ud43dfcf9-c86e-5401-8745-1cc4ad760a6a)
Prologue The Old Bailey, Winter 2002 (#uf21634e7-a787-5fce-a689-1a9e6f09c1b7)
1 London, May 1998 (#u2e7f14d6-f20d-582a-9c04-b556b008e07f)
2 June–December 1998 (#u0059c77e-b7c1-545a-8c4e-003d5f573cae)
3 January 1999–August 2000 (#litres_trial_promo)
4 June 2000–September 2001 (#litres_trial_promo)
5 September 2001–September 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Pakistan, October 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
7 Afghanistan, October 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
8 London, November 2002 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
P.S. (#litres_trial_promo)
About the author (#litres_trial_promo)
Profile of James Fergusson Alex Linklater (#litres_trial_promo)
Life at a Glance (#litres_trial_promo)
Top Ten Books (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Book (#litres_trial_promo)
A Critical Eye (#litres_trial_promo)
Update (#litres_trial_promo)
Read on (#litres_trial_promo)
If You Loved This, You Might Like… (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
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