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

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  • 320

    Pages
  • 9780141010267

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  • 2 mm

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  • 13 mm

    Height
  • 19 gram

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  • THE

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  • 24 MARCH 2004

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    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 myth-chasing Afghanistan-Shah becomes, at twenty-one, a correspondent at the front of the war between the Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then, imprisoning herself...  Read More

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    Saira Shah

    Writer, reporter, and documentary film maker, Shah is daughter of Afghan author and sibling to and . She is named after her grandmother, Scottish writer Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, who wrote as .

    Her film credits include , , and .

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