The sleeping Buddha  -  Hamida Ghafour

the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family

KORTE INHOUD

This is an evocative family memoir and unique portrait of Afghanistan from a young Afghan journalist. Hamida Ghafour's family fled Kabul after the Russian invasion. In 2003, she was sent back by the Telegraph to cover the country's reconstruction. She finds a place changed utterly from the world her parents had described and her grandmother - an Afghan Virginia Woolf - had written about. All around her is the West's first post-9/11 experiment with an Islamic democracy. But the people she meets reveal a diff...
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2007 Uitgever: Constable 336 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1845293134 ISBN-13: 9781845293130