The Storyteller's Daughter - Hardcover

Shah, Saira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375415319 ISBN 13: 9780375415319

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The woman who filmed Beneath the Veil, a groundbreaking documentary about Afghanistan, shares her journey of self discovery as a woman caught between Western and Afghani worlds. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Brilliant and moving." -"The New York Times Book Review"
"The Storyteller's Daughter is the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her 'incompatible worlds of East and West.' " -"The Washington Post Book World"
"Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights." -"Los Angeles Times
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"Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity." -"San Francisco Chronicle
""Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . . The Storyteller's Daughter""has the energy of a necessary catharsis." -"Vogue"
"An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan." -Doris Lessing
"Her courage takes the breath away." -"O: The Oprah Magazine
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"Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani." -Jon Snow
"Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment." -"Rocky Mountain News"
"A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit." -Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Imagining the New Britain
"A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society." -"Asian Week
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"Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry." -Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan"
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Brilliant and moving. The New York Times Book Review
The Storyteller s Daughter is the work of a confident yet modest and self-effacing woman who is drawn to danger and whose greatest desire is to understand her incompatible worlds of East and West. The Washington Post Book World
Absorbing, heartbreaking. . . . A book about myths and their double-edged power to inspire and delude. . . . Filled with memorable sounds, sights and insights. Los Angeles Times

Both tender and haunting. . . . A stylized work of humility and heartbreaking devastation and dignity. San Francisco Chronicle
Heartstopping. . . . Rich and startlingly eventful. . . . The Storyteller s Daughter has the energy of a necessary catharsis. Vogue
An extraordinary book by a remarkable young woman. . . . There is not likely to be a better one about Afghanistan. Doris Lessing
Her courage takes the breath away. O: The Oprah Magazine

Saira Shah takes us on an extraordinary journey from an English childhood, laced with Afghan myths handed down from her forebears, to the terrors and complexities of present-day Afghanistan. . . . At the end of it you are left with the truest sense of this magical country together with the recognition this exceptional English writer is still unmistakably Afghani. Jon Snow
Invaluable. . . . A beautifully related journey to enlightenmment. Rocky Mountain News
A remarkable and essential book about Afghanistan. . . . It is alive with detail, emotion, myth, fable, bleeding reality, and those laughs and freedoms which arise defiantly out of the darkest of times to assert the human spirit. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of Imagining the New Britain
A rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society. Asian Week

Deeply moving. . . . Here is a book written with resolute grace, much humour and underpinned by an unflinching spirit of enquiry. Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
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About the Author:

Saira Shah lives in London and is a freelance journalist. She was born in Britain of an Afghan family, the daughter of Idries Shah, a writer of Sufi fables. She first visited Afghanistan at age twenty-one and worked there for three years as a freelance journalist, covering the guerilla war against the Soviet occupiers. Later, working for Britain’s Channel 4 News, she covered some of the world’s most troubled spots, including Algeria, Kosovo, and Kinshasa, as well as Baghdad and other parts of the Middle East. Her documentary Beneath the Veil was broadcast on CNN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375415319
• ISBN 13: 9780375415319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253