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Storyteller's Daughter - Hardcover By Shah, Saira - GOOD
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- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780375415319
- Book Title
- Storyteller's Daughter : One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Religion, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Asia / Central Asia, Women, Sociology / General, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Religion, Politics & State
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 18.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Information
The vivid, often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears presided over for nine hundred years within sight of the minarets and lush gardens of Kabul and the snow-topped mountains of the Hindu Kush. Part sophisticated, sensitive Western liberal, part fearless, passionate Afghan, falling in love with her ancestral mythchasing AfghanistanShah becomes, at twenty-one, a correspondent at the front of the war between the Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then, imprisoning herself in aburqa, she risks her life to filmBeneath the Veil, her acclaimed record of the devastation of women's lives by the Taliban. Discovering her extended family, discovering a world of intense family ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, and finding at last the now war-ravaged family seat, she discovers as well what she wants and what she rejects of her extraordinary heritage.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375415319
ISBN-13
9780375415319
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2341187
Product Key Features
Book Title
Storyteller's Daughter : One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Central Asia, Women, Sociology / General, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Religion, Politics & State
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds352.S45 2003
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 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
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-295126
Dewey Decimal
958.104/6/092 B
Dewey Edition
0
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