The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland by Shah, Saira

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400031474)

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The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland by Shah, Saira

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

$24.00
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland by Shah, Saira

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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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 documentarian-her film Beneath the Veil unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban rule-Shah 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 men-until now.

Author: Saira Shah
ISBN-10: 1400031478
ISBN-13: 9781400031474
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2004
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2005 pg. 31
New York Times 01/30/2005 pg. 24
Library Journal 09/15/2007 pg. 101
By Saira Shah
By Saira Shah
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Saira Shah lives in London and is a freelance journalist. She was born in Britain of an Afghan family, the daughter of Idries Shah, a writer of Sufi fables. She first visited Afghanistan at age twenty-one and worked there for three years as a freelance journalist, covering the guerilla war against the Soviet occupiers. Later, working for Britain's Channel 4 News, she covered some of the world's most troubled spots, including Algeria, Kosovo, and Kinshasa, as well as Baghdad and other parts of the Middle East. Her documentary Beneath the Veil was broadcast on CNN.

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