One Way to Pakistan: A Novel - Softcover

Bergsma, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 142597421X ISBN 13: 9781425974213

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

"One Way to Pakistan" Harold Bergsma's tale of corruption and abduction in Pakistan is a very compelling read that rates right up there with, "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. The novel is set in a post 9/11 world where American freedoms are at odds with Islamist traditions and the law of Sharia. Bergsma paints a vivid picture of sexual repression and wide-spread graft in a culture foreign to most of us but all too familiar to him as having been born and raised on the sub-continent. His characters are from all walks of life and social castes and give an insightful peek (literally) at how the other half lives. Inevitable none of them escape unscathed as they try to survive in the maelstrom caused by daily terrorist threats and the clash between imperialism and fundamentalism. As a world traveler and raconteur myself, I wholeheartedly recommend this novel to anyone who is interested in finding out more about a society that we as Americans have embraced as an ally in the war on terror- it is a real eye-opener. Robert McMahan, San Diego, California. In One Way to Pakistan, Harold Bergsma takes us behind the headlines to a world where Muslims and Christians are all too human. Using powerful images of three abductions, he weaves a tale which is engaging and passionately written and causes us to care deeply about his characters and their fates. Characters and events such as these, at first glance, may be misunderstood by westerners, but their cultural context on the global stage is made clear and definitely compelling. Fascinating, thought-provoking and sympathetic, this novel is an important contribution to both global and multicultural understanding.Elaine Jarchow, Ph.D., Dean, Author, Preparing to Teach Global Perspectives, Corwin Press, 1997 Reading One Way to Pakistan by Harold Bergsma gave me a nostalgic visit to my childhood in India. The characters in it became real people for me and I felt very involved in their lives. The story drew me in comple

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About the Author:

Harold M. Bergsma is a son of medical missionaries who worked in Ethiopia and northern India for many years. His early schooling was in India, at Woodstock International School in Mussoorie, U.P. He speaks Urdu and some Punjabi. His earliest memories are of Taxila in the North West Frontier Province. Later he lived in Sialkot and as a teenager in Ludhiana. Bergsma also lived as a child in California and in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the age of eighteen Bergsma returned with his parents to India and enrolled as a senior at Woodstock School, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Prior to beginning his senior year of studies he took part in a three month ornithological expedition to Nepal led by the late Dr. Robert L. Fleming, his mentor, under the auspices of the Chicago Field Museum and the National Geographic Society. After completing his high school at Woodstock, he returned to the United States for college. He earned a B.A. in Religious Studies and Elementary Education at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan; his M.A. was in Secondary Educational Administration at Michigan State University and his Ph.D. in International and Comparative Education and African Anthropology and Linguistics at M.S.U. He was a Fellow of the African Studies Institute. His first overseas professional experience was in Nigeria where he worked for twelve years as the founding high school principal for both the Bristow Secondary School and the Wukari Division Combined Secondary school for the Christian Reformed Board of Foreign Missions. He speaks and reads Tiv as well and has studied the Hausa language. He worked eight years at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, as Division Head to help establish the new Department of Secondary Education. He moved to New Mexico

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 142597421X
• ISBN 13: 9781425974213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424