Word: nazrullah
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...embassy in Kabul comes an urgent State Department order to locate Ellen Jaspar, a Bryn Mawr junior who has run off and married an Afghan engineer named Nazrullah. Thirteen months have passed since Ellen had last written her parents back home in Dorset, Pa. The task of finding the missing girl falls to Mark Miller, a junior embassy officer fluent in Pashto, the native language...
Trying to pick up Ellen's trail, Miller picks up instead a mysterious German doctor named Stiglitz, who turns out to be a fleeing Nazi war criminal. Eventually they track down Nazrullah at a damsite near the ancient city of Qala Bist. But Nazrullah seems more concerned with building Afghanistan's future than with his wife's whereabouts. Ellen, after all, was only Wife...
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