The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

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.

These are but the starting points of Saira Shahâ€™s memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably heartbreaking, in which she explores her familyâ€™s history in and out of Afghanistan. As an accomplished journalist and documentarianâ€“her film Beneath the Veil unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban ruleâ€“Shah returned to her familyâ€™s homeland cloaked in the burqa 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 fatherâ€™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 menâ€“until now.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2004-10-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400031474

Country	USA
Brand	Anchor Books
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2004-10-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400031474

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland