The Storyteller's Daughter

One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

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Beschreibung

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.<br><br>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 <b>Beneath the Veil</b> unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban rule-Shah returned to her family's homeland cloaked in the <i>burqa</i> 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.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781400031474

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

203 x 132 x 15 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Verlag / Hersteller

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group