A Poet and Bin-Laden - Hardcoverby Hamid Ismailov (Author), Andrew Bromfield (Translator) The "reality novel" A Poet and Bin Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first hand account on the militants and Taliban's internal life. The novel begins on the eve of 9 11, with the narrator's haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he