The Storyteller's Daughter

Return to a Lost Homeland

Sairah Shah (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2003
Michael Joseph Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7181-4562-0 (ISBN)

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British-born Saira Shah returned to Afghanistan to find out what it's like to be an Afghan woman trying to straddle the divide between Western and Eastern culture, religion, politics and tradition. She offers the reader a very personal account of her heritage.

Saira Shah's family left Afghanistan in the sixties to settle in Britain. They were cosmopolitan - with branches all over the world. Her father had himself travelled widely throughout most of the Middle East and Central Asia. Throughout her childhood he captivated her with his many stories about Afghanistan and its people. It became a wonderful, mysterious and romantic place in Saira's imagination. Here she chronicles a journey of discovery.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.8.2003
Zusatzinfo	Col.ill.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 223 mm
Gewicht	502 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	0-7181-4562-3 / 0718145623
ISBN-13	978-0-7181-4562-0 / 9780718145620
Zustand	Neuware