Dubin's Lives Agatha Award for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel (2013) ” — Boston Globe An

” —  Boston Globe An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart—from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides—while revisiting her own family’s deep roots to the land

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Dubin's Lives Agatha Award for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel (2013) ” — Boston Globe AnWith a new introduction by Thomas MallonDubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant . Possibly, it is the best he has written of all."Its protagonist is one of Malamud's finest characters; prize winning biographer William Dubin, who learns from lives, or thinks he those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his