My Forbidden Face
$29.72
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
23 November 2004
Summary
My Forbidden Face: A Young Woman’s Life Under the Taliban
Latifa, born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, dreamed of becoming a journalist. She loved fashion, movies, and spending time with friends. Her father worked in import/export, and her mother was a doctor.
But in September 1996, the Taliban seized power. Overnight, 16-year-old Latifa became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was shut down, her mother was forbidden from working, and basic freedoms …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860499616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860499619 |
| Author: | Latifa |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 23 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 137g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
This thoughtful and affecting account…questions the complacency of Western feminism which has forgotten the many women across the world who still have nothing.– DAILY MAIL
Her descriptions of watching videos in secret, listening to the radio in terror lest she be caught and hovering on the edge of a black hole of depression during what should have been the liveliest years of her life give a very human face to the known facts of how the most repressive government on the planet operated. - IRISH INDEPENDENT
A salutary read for any Western woman, and one that makes you appreciate the freedoms we often take for granted. - GLAMOURA poweful and poetic account of life under the Taliban. - DAILY TELEGRAPHThis thoughtful and affecting account…questions the complacency of Western feminism which has forgotten the many women across the world who still have nothing. - DAILY MAILAbout The Author
Latifa
In May 2001, Latifa & her parents escaped Afghanistan & were brought to Europe in an operation organized by a French-based Afghan resistance group & Elle Magazine. She speaks Persian and is learning English and French. Latifa is not her real name.
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