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A short book on Uzbekistan, with some funny stories and even more "Oh, Uzbekistan, why do you have to do that?" stories.
Rand breaks up the book into two parts: the first seems to be articles he wrote, while the second starts off as a number of personal anecdotes about the country then becomes an account of the many human rights violations in the country (including one section that, as other critics on Goodreads have said, is simply a pages-long word-for-word copy of a UN report). On the whole, ...more
Rand breaks up the book into two parts: the first seems to be articles he wrote, while the second starts off as a number of personal anecdotes about the country then becomes an account of the many human rights violations in the country (including one section that, as other critics on Goodreads have said, is simply a pages-long word-for-word copy of a UN report). On the whole, ...more
