The Storyteller's Daughter : Return to a Lost Homeland - Hardcover

Saira Shah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718145623 ISBN 13: 9780718145620

Publisher: Gardners Books, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Shah, Sairah

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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 in a burqa, she risks her life to film Beneath 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.

About the Author:

Saira Shah was born in Britain of an Afghan family who trace their ancestry back two thousand years. She has been back and forth to Afghanistan since the early 1980s - when she first went travelling with the mujahedin - making more than nine long trips. She is a freelance journalist and war reporter, and fronted the acclaimed documentaries BENEATH THE VEIL and UNHOLY WAR.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gardners Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0718145623
• ISBN 13: 9780718145620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308