The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland - Softcover

Shah, Saira

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9780141010267: The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland

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ISBN 10: 0141010266 ISBN 13: 9780141010267

Publisher: Penguin, 2004

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Saira Shah always felt like an outsider. As a child growing up in Britain, she was told that she came from a far away Eastern land, a magical place that her father, the storyteller, would bring exotically to life. When, at the age of twenty-one, Saira set out to discover this magic land for herself, she found a devastated country quite unlike that of her father?s stories. Worse, as a modern Western woman, she felt despised and powerless. Yet despite the brutal shattering of her dream, Saira came to feel that her own heartfelt story belonged to this troubled land.

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The Storyteller's Daughter Originally published: London: Penguin, 2003. Subsequently published in hardcover in the United States: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Full description

About the Author:

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.

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