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100 1 $aKoofi, Fawzia,$d1975-
245 10 $aLetters to my daughters :$ba memoir /$cFawzia Koofi.
260 $aVancouver :$bDouglas & McIntyre,$cc2011.
300 $ax, 275 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan's most popular female politician. On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, Fawzia survived and became the favourite child. In Letters to my daughters, Fawzia tells her remarkable life story. Fawzia's father was an incorruptible politician strongly attached to Afghan tradition. When he was murdered by the mujahedeen, Fawzia's illiterate mother decided to send the ten-year-old girl to school, and as the civil war raged, Fawzia dodged bullets and snipers to attend class, determined to be the first person in her family to receive an education. She went on to marry a man she loved, and they had two cherished daughters, Shohra and Shaharzad. Tragically, the arrival of the Taliban spelled an end to her freedom. Outraged and deeply saddened by the injustice she saw around her, and by the tainting of her Islamic faith, Fawzia discovered politics herself. Fawzia opens each chapter with a letter she has written to her two daughters in which she passes on her wisdom about justice and dignity, not knowing whether she will survive to see them again. In writing Letters to My Daughters, Fawzia has created a fresh take on Afghan society and Islam, and a gripping account of a life lived under the most harrowing of circumstances"--Publisher's description.
505 0 $a[Ch.] 1. Just a Girl -- [Ch.] 2. Stories of old -- [Ch.] 3. A terrible loss -- [Ch.] 4. A new start -- [Ch.] 5. A village girl again -- [Ch.] 6. When justice dies -- [Ch.] 7. The war Within -- [Ch]. 8. Losing her -- [Ch.] 9. One ordinary Thursday -- [Ch.] 10. Retreat to the north -- [Ch.] 11. Everthing turns white -- [Ch.] 12. A Taliban wedding -- [Ch.] 13. An end before a beginning -- [Ch.] 14. The darkness pervades -- [Ch.] 15. Back to my roots -- [Ch.] 16. A daughter for a daughter -- [Ch.] 17. The darkness lifts -- [Ch.] 18. A new purpose -- [Ch.] 19. A movement for change -- Epilogue. A dream for a war-torn nation -- A historical timeline of Afghanistan.
530 $aIssued also in an electronic format.
600 10 $aKoofi, Fawzia,$d1975-
650 0 $aWomen politicians$zAfghanistan$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen$zAfghanistan$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aAfghanistan$xPolitics and government$y2001-
600 10 $aKoofi, Fawzia.
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