Navigating Power in “The Opium Prince” – Chicago Review of Books

Navigating Power in “The Opium Prince” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her debut novel, The Opium Prince, Jasmine Aimaq centers a frequently overlooked aspect of tumult in Afghanistan: if opium were not in demand, possessing it wouldn’t translate into power. A hierarchy – a royalty of sorts – exists around the creation and distribution of opiates in the East, in no small part because … Read more