The dressmaker of Khair Khana
Subtitle: five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; John Murray Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781848545557
Subjects: Family; Dressmakers; Biography; Sisters; Businesswomen; Community life; History; Social life and customs; Economic conditions; Economic history; Families; Manners and customs
Description: When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamela Sediqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and security. Desperate to help her family and support her five brothers and sisters at home, Kamela began sewing cothes in her living room. Little did she know that the tailoring business she started to help her siblings would be the beginning of a dresmaking business that would create jobs and hope for one hundred neighbourhood women and would come to mean the difference between starvation and survival for hundreds of families like her own.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The news arrives and everything changes; title: A time of goodbyes; title: Stitching the future back together; title: The plan goes to market; title: An idea is born ... but will it work?; title: Class is in session; title: An unexpected wedding party; title: A new opportunity knocks; title: Danger in the night sky; title: Epilogue: Kabul Jan Kaweyan and Kamela's faith in good fortune.