The remarkable tale of an Afghan who once fought the Russians, became a protégé of a now-dead freedom fighter who had gone to Harvard, and eventually went there himself, was bought by Morgan Entrekin at Grove/Atlantic for a low six figures from agent Tina Bennett at Janklow & Nesbit. He bought world English rights in the untitled book by Masood Farivar and plans to publish in 2004. Farivar was a young soldier in the Tora Bora enclave when he was taken under the wing of Carlos Mavroleon, a Harvard grad and former bond trader in New York, who helped Farivar get into the U.S. and Harvard and was later killed in Afghanistan under mysterious circumstances. Now a reporter for Dow Jones, Farivar recently returned to his native land to find most of the people he had known dead or fled.
Afghan's Amazing Story to Entrekin
Aug 16, 2002
A version of this article appeared in the 08/19/2002 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: