
This memoir from an ex-Taliban fighter is astonishing
“When I was 16, I wanted to become a suicide bomber for the Taliban in Afghanistan.” This must be the strongest opening sentence of any memoir of the 21st century, and the following 300 pages do not disappoint. Delusions of Paradise is the story of how and why Maiwand Banayee was brainwashed into …

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