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A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
by Pazira, Nelofer
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- ISBN 10
- 0679312714
- ISBN 13
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Toronto: Random House Canada, 2005 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Artist. 1st Canadian. The star of the film Kandahar.Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six, the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father, a respected doctor, was imprisoned along with family and friends. Their country became a police state and the centre of a * conflict between the Soviet army and the American-backed guerillas.Amid the blood and fear of war, Nelofer's refuge from violence and anger was her friendship with Dyana. Together they shared their lives, their passion for poetry and the dangers of underground resistance.After a decade of war, Nelofer's family escaped across the mountains to Pakistan and from there to Canada, where she continued her friendship with Dyana through letters. When her friend suddenly stopped writing, Nelofer felt bereft. Her * to Afghanistan under the Taliban and her desperate search for Dyana became the story of the internationally acclaimed film Kandahar. Her journey to discover Dyana's tragedy led her finally to Russia, to the country that destroyed her life, where she found a nation imprisoned by its own history.Nuanced, affecting and stunningly written, A Bed of Red Flowers is a gripping portrait of ordinary life under occupation and an illuminating window onto the devastation of a country and the resilience of its people.408p.llus index Signed on tirle page.
Synopsis
Nelofer Pazira is a journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist living in Toronto. In 2001, she starred in the film Kandahar, which was loosely based on her journey to find a friend living in Afghanistan. Two years later she co-directed and produced the Gemini Award-winning documentary Return to Kandahar. A Bed of Red Flowers , her first book, won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize awarded by The Writers’ Trust of Canada. In an interview with Time magazine, Pazira explains the impetus for writing the book: “A lot of my memories were unhappy, and I didn’t want to revisit them. But making Kandahar , I was forced to think about those memories. Once we finished the movie, I felt that I had started something, and instead of closing that door, I should go through it.” She elaborates on her choice of genre in Embassy : "I realized that I had a choice of doing either a very academic book that would be a history of Afghanistan, but what new can I say about that? There are hundreds of books written on that subject, analyzing various periods, and I asked what else can I add to this that would be different, that would really add a unique touch? I realized what I could do that was different would be to write about what life was like when we lived there. I realized that nobody knows about that, and that people don't know what it was like to live in Afghanistan in those years before the Taliban." A regular contributor to CBC’s The National , Pazira has set up a charity – Dyana Afghan Women’s Fund – to provide education and skills training for women in the city of Kandahar.
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- Title
- A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
- Author
- Pazira, Nelofer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
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- As New
- Edition
- 1st Canadian
- ISBN 10
- 0679312714
- ISBN 13
- 9780679312710
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- REFUGEES AFGHANISTAN TALIBAN AFGHANI CANADIAN WRITERS Refgees Afghanistan Taliban
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