A very intriguing book. I felt like it was a Hollywood movie. So much of it was so unbelievable, yet true. I can't even begin to imagine what life in Afghanistan was like during her life so far. Her life was so tragic, yet she has come so far and is now quite a political influence. To read about ...
This was a very interesting book about one child/teen/woman's experiences in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mujaheddin civil wars, the Taliban and the attacks by the US and NATO in 2001 and the attempts to establish democracy in Afghanistan as well as the resurgence of the Taliban i...
We were still living in my brother’s apartment in Makrorian. (The word makrorian roughly translates as “living space.”) The apartments had been built by the Russians using the latest technological advances, such as a communal hot water system serving over ten apartment blocks, each housing up to ...
In the previous three months, she had gotten progressively worse and now she was barely able to breathe and too weak to move. She had been admitted to hospital, but everyone could see she didn’t have long to live. I had heard rumours that a man called Hamid from a district called Khawhan, which i...