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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Textbook
- ISBN
- 9781400031474
- Book Title
- Storyteller's Daughter : One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Asia / Central Asia, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Middle East / General
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Information
Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime. These are but the starting points of Saira Shah's memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably heartbreaking, in which she explores her family's history in and out of Afghanistan. As an accomplished journalist and documentarianher film Beneath the Veil unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban ruleShah returned to her family's homeland cloaked in the burqa to witness the pungent and shocking realities of Afghan life. As the daughter of the Sufi fabulist Idries Shah, primed by a lifetime of listening to her father's stories, she eagerly sought out, from the mouths of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the rich and living myths that still sustain this battered culture of warriors. And she discovered that in Afghanistan all the storytellers have been menuntil now.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400031478
ISBN-13
9781400031474
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30504614
Product Key Features
Book Title
Storyteller's Daughter : One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Asia / Central Asia, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Middle East / General
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
0
Reviews
"Brilliant and moving." The New York Times Book Review "The Storyteller's Daughteris the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her 'incompatible worlds of East and West.' " The Washington Post Book World "Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights." Los Angeles Times "Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity." San Francisco Chronicle "Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . .The Storyteller's Daughterhas the energy of a necessary catharsis." Vogue "An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan." Doris Lessing "Her courage takes the breath away." O: The Oprah Magazine "Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani." Jon Snow "Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment." Rocky Mountain News "A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author ofImagining the New Britain "A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society." Asian Week "Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry." Jason Elliot, author ofAn Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, "Brilliant and moving." The New York Times Book Review "The Storyteller's Daughter is the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her 'incompatible worlds of East and West.' " The Washington Post Book World "Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights." Los Angeles Times "Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity." San Francisco Chronicle "Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . . The Storyteller's Daughter has the energy of a necessary catharsis." Vogue "An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan." Doris Lessing "Her courage takes the breath away." O: The Oprah Magazine "Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani." Jon Snow "Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment." Rocky Mountain News "A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Imagining the New Britain "A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society." Asian Week "Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry." Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan From the Trade Paperback edition., "Brilliant and moving." The New York Times Book Review " The Storyteller's Daughter is the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her 'incompatible worlds of East and West.' " The Washington Post Book World "Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights." Los Angeles Times "Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity." San Francisco Chronicle "Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . . The Storyteller's Daughter has the energy of a necessary catharsis." Vogue "An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan." Doris Lessing "Her courage takes the breath away." O: The Oprah Magazine "Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani." Jon Snow "Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment." Rocky Mountain News "A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Imagining the New Britain "A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society." Asian Week "Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry." Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan From the Trade Paperback edition., "Brilliant and moving." The New York Times Book Review "The Storyteller's Daughter is the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her 'incompatible worlds of East and West.' " The Washington Post Book World "Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights." Los Angeles Times "Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity." San Francisco Chronicle "Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . . The Storyteller's Daughter has the energy of a necessary catharsis." Vogue "An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan." Doris Lessing "Her courage takes the breath away." O: The Oprah Magazine "Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani." Jon Snow "Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment." Rocky Mountain News "A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Imagining the New Britain "A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society." Asian Week "Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry." Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, "Brilliant and moving." The New York Times Book Review " The Storyteller's Daughter is the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her 'incompatible worlds of East and West.' " The Washington Post Book World "Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights." Los Angeles Times "Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity." San Francisco Chronicle "Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . . The Storyteller's Daughter has the energy of a necessary catharsis." Vogue "An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan." Doris Lessing "Her courage takes the breath away." O: The Oprah Magazine "Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani." Jon Snow "Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment." Rocky Mountain News "A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Imagining the New Britain "A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society." Asian Week "Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry." Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
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