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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story Hardcover - 2002
by Latifa,Shekeba Hachemi
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- Title My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story
- Author Latifa,Shekeba Hachemi
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 210
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Miramax, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6032
- ISBN 9780786869015 / 0786869011
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.58 x 5.8 x 0.82 in (21.79 x 14.73 x 2.08 cm)
- Reading level 970
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004540980
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Poignant first-hand account of life for a young Afghani woman under the TalibanLatifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day becoming a journalist and was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. Her school was closed and from that moment she became a prisoner in her own home at just 16. Latifa was now forced to wear a chadri and struggled against an overwhelming sense of helplessness and despair. In a step of defiance, she set up a clandestine school in her home for a small number of young girls. Latifa knew that she was risking her life for something that could change little. But the teaching gave her a reason to get up in the morning. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group.
First line
9 A.M., September 27, 1996. Someone knocks violently on our door.