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Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan

Title: Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan / Suraya Sadeed with Damien Lewis.
Author: Sadeed, Suraya.
Publication: London : Virago, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Lewis, Damien.

Description

viii, 280 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Set amidst some of the most inhospitable conditions in war-torn, Taliban-seized Afghanistan, this book is an adventure story with heart that tells Sadeed's inspiring fight to bring aid, education, and peace training to Afghan citizens.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Contents

Prologue: Lessons by lamplight -- pt. 1. Finding hope in a lawless Afghanistan (1995) -- Help the Afghan Children -- The beginning -- The camel road -- The devil's flowers -- The edge of darkness -- The widow camp -- City of ghosts -- A promise to Fatima -- pt. 2. Imperfect peace under the Taliban -- The tree of amputations -- It is what it is -- Stoned and flying out here -- The day the Earth turned angry -- Of life and love -- Young enough to wed -- The darkness before the dawn -- Singing with the Taliban -- The kindness of strangers -- pt. 3. Under a hail of American bombs (September 2001-present) -- The day everything changed -- The wrong side of the border -- The boy who killed the American -- Hearts and minds -- Epilogue: Drop by drop a river forms -- Afterword.

ISBN

9781844086627
1844086623

OCLC

ocn752999919
752999919
SCSB-14430645

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library