num_pages: 368
description:  The startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds: Britain and Afghanistan under the Taliban.Born in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow–topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira –– part sophisticated and sensitive Western liberal, part fearless (even fierce) life–gulping Afghan. We meet Saira, at 21, becoming a correspondent at the front during the war between the Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then Saira, self–imprisoned in a burqa, risking her life to film Beneath the Veil –– her acclaimed record of the devastation of women's lives by the Taliban. And finally, Saira discovering her extended family, discovering a world of ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, finding at last the (now war–ravaged) family seat.
language: English
title: The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
titlecomplete: The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
genres: History, Womens, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Religion, Biography Memoir, Travel, Cultural, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1403
publisher: HarperAudio