The Long Road to Hope

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In a tale of intense courage and unimaginable pain, The Long Road to Hope is the timely autobiography of Mohammed Nabi, an Afghan interpreter who worked for the Canadian and British forces on the frontline in Helmand Province from 2008-2011.

Raised on the frontline. Interrogated and tortured when only a teenager. Shot at by RPGs while on duty. Hunted down by the Taliban. Living as a homeless refugee on the streets of Athens, separated from his wife and family. These are the experiences of Mohammed Nabi, an Afghan interpreter who worked with British and Canadian troops during the occupation of Afghanistan.

In this story of a life and a nation ravaged by war, Nabi, working in collaboration with journalist Anastasia Miari, gives a passionate and heart-wrenching account of living through the violence and conflict of modern day Afghanistan.

From his early life growing up in a remote village where brutal local warlords kept dancing boys as slaves, to witnessing, and initially celebrating the rise of the Taliban, to working with and befriending western forces in his role as an interpreter, this powerful, intense first-hand account lays out the struggles of a man fighting to survive in the midst of extreme danger on a daily basis.

The book covers his three years working as an interpreter, facing gunfire and rocket attacks as he worked alongside troops on the frontline and witnessing scores of colleagues be killed, before charting his life after this, living in fear of the threat of brutal Taliban reprisals, at one point barely escaping with his life.

He fled Afghanistan in 2015 and lived homeless on the streets of Athens, where he met co-author Anastasia Miari, before eventually being accepted into a refugee camp, where he was powerless to witness the traumatic scenes of Afghanistan unravelling before his eyes. Recently granted asylum, Nabi is still separated from his wife and children in Afghanistan, and is desperately fighting to extract them from Kabul where they remain trapped under Taliban rule.

This essential account will move readers to tears with its emotional depiction of the tragedy of the ongoing violence and conflict in Afghanistan, as Nabi recount sthe dreadful realities of life as a translator on the frontlines of modern history's most brutal and enduring conflict.
 The Long Road to Hope is the timely, autobiographical story of Afghan interpreter, Mohammed Nabi, who worked for the Canadian and British forces on the frontline in Helmand Province from 2008-2011. Hunted down by the Taliban, he fled Afghanistan in 2015 and has been homeless in Athens, where he met Anastasia Miari. Recently granted asylum in the UK, his wife and children are in hiding in Kabul and he’s desperately trying to get them out before the Taliban find them.
 

Mohammed Nabi is an Afghan interpreter who grew up in Hazar Bagh in Takhar Province. He worked for the Canadian and British forces in Helmand Province in 2008-2011and is now a refugee in Athens seeking asylum in the UK. The Long Road to Hope is his first book. He met his co-writer, Anastasia Miari, in Athens. She is a journalist writing for the Daily Telegraph, Guardian,  Independent, Sunday Times and New York Times. Winner of the 2021 Faber & Faber Academy writing scholarship, Anastasia Miari has written two previous books, The Wallpaper Guide to Athens and Grand Dishes.
 

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