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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom

Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom

Follain, John
Cristofari, Rita

Paperback

Political BiographiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0060097833
ISBN13: 9780060097837
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Apr 15 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
Awards: Virginia Readers Choice Award

Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Even the piles of rotting rubbish in my street, the only source of food for the scrawny chickens and goats that our neighbors kept outside their mud houses, looked beautiful to me after the snow had covered them in white during the long night.

Though she is only twenty-three, Zoya has witnessed and endured more tragedy and terror than most people experience in a lifetime. Born in a land ravaged by war, she was robbed of her parents when they were murdered by Muslim fundamentalists. Devastated, she fled Kabul with her grandmother and started a new life in exile in Pakistan. She joined the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), an organization that challenged the crushing edicts of the Taliban government, and she took destiny into her own hands, joining a dangerous, clandestine war to save her nation.

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