Fleeing Afghanistan, Stranding in America: The Life of an Interpreter's Family - Paperback

by Haji Razmi (Author)

The madness of mass shootings is raging in both of my homes; here, mass murderers dance under the banner of "Gun Freedom", and there, they worship the flag of "Holy War"; The "lovers" of freedom take lives for their allegiance to the Second Amendment, while the "devotees" of Islam commit carnage for their fidelity to the Quran-other than that, they share the same "values" They don't demand money or jewelry from their victims, they do not ask them for intimacy or sexual favor, and, most of the times, they don't even know their victims' names, identities, religions, languages, nationalities, or the good and bad of their personalities. They slaughter them indiscriminately just for being human beings.

The above is what this book is about; The life of an Afghan interpreter, who lost part of his family to a suicide attack in his country and then immigrated to the US in the hope to raise his children in the safety and security of this great country only to see the rest of his family being destroyed by gun violence.

Author Biography

Haji Razmi was born in Kandahar- Afghanistan. He worked as a diplomat at the United Nations from 1987 to 1991. He went to the Law School of Kabul University, and the Institute of Diplomacy at the Afghan Foreign Ministry. He received the certificates of attendance in the full annual sessions of The Hague Academy of International Law and the UN Geneva Commission of International Conventions. He taught Pashto language at Cal State- Eastbay and Stanford universities. He is the author of Afghans Don't Cry- a collection of short stories, The Alliance of Heroes, a novel, and two other novels written in his native languages of Pashto and Dari reflecting mostly on the identity problem of the Afghan diaspora who left their homeland after the Soviet invasion in 1979 as well as the recent historic upheavals of that country, where the great world powers, the former Soviet Union and the United States of America ventured but yet stopped short of knowing the core of the nation's moral, cultural, social and political nuts and bolts.