{"product_id":"lost-to-the-world-shahbaz-taseer-9781250872234","title":"Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShahbaz Taseer's memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Talibanaffiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Taseer's father, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan, had recently been assassinated for speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Though Taseer himself wasn't involved in politics, he was still a public figure who represented a more tolerant, internationally connected Pakistan that the IMU condemned. What followed his kidnapping was nearly five years of torture and constant peril as Taseer was held captive by the IMU in the ungoverned reaches of Pakistan and Afghanistan, his fate subject to the unpredictable whims and machinations of terrorists. \u003ci\u003eLost to the World\u003c\/i\u003e is his memoir of that time--a story of extraordinary sorrow but also of empathy and faith. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile deeply harrowing, this tale is also about resilience. Taseer countered his\u003cbr\u003ecaptors' narrative of a holy war by immersing himself in the Quran in search of hope\u003cbr\u003eand a means to see his own humanity under even the most inhumane conditions, and\u003cbr\u003eultimately to find a way back to his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shahbaz Taseer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250872235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250872234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.69d","brand":"Shahbaz Taseer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522691231999,"sku":"9781250872234","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c0ab504-c80f-4dda-b280-25b139ad700b.jpg?v=1700158525","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lost-to-the-world-shahbaz-taseer-9781250872234","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}