International Womens Stories
Annotation:A story of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban told with "sledgehammer power and authority" (NoveList). How the lives of 3 individuals collide and become entangled described in a stark, no-holds-barred story of the complexity that is life under a radical-fundamentalist "government".
Annotation:A work of fiction very out of character for this author but as scrupulously detailed and researched as all his books - perhaps more so. I've struggled myself for an understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, though still torn, am closer to that understanding from reading this book.
Annotation:This narrative, although fictional, will tear at your heart with it's fictional, but oh-so-real, story of the perils of bearing a girl-child in a world not always welcoming of them.
Annotation:This book vies for the #1 spot on my "Favorite Book of all Time" - it's competition being "Far Pavilions" which I read so long ago. Wonderful characters caught in circumstances so unbelievable that they must be real.
Annotation:She truly is an extraordinary woman who tells her story without varnish and holds the rest of us accountable for that which we choose to ignore.
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I've been blown away over the past couple of years by the incredible - and, in some cases, horrific - stories of women from all over the world. It all started with a fictional story "Far Pavilions" written in 1978 and the strange echoes of "not a damn thing has changed" I've found in recent books written by women in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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