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The storyteller's daughter / Saira Shah.
Van Pelt Library PN5123.S43 A3 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Saira.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shah, Saira.
- Islam and politics--Afghanistan.
- Islam and politics.
- Social conditions.
- Women.
- Afghanistan.
- Women--Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century.
- Afghanistan--Social conditions.
- Afghanistan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Afghanistan--History--1989-.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2003]
- Summary:
- The freelance journalist who filmed "Beneath the Veil" offers a startling memoir of how her life was shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. This is Saira, part sophisticated and sensitive Western liberal, part fearless, life-gulping Afghan, falling in love with her ancestral myth, chasing Afghanistan.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375415319
- OCLC:
- 52998681
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