Bibliograph

Letters to my daughters, a memoir, Fawzia Koofi

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Label

Letters to my daughters, a memoir, Fawzia Koofi

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Letters to my daughters

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

712851433

Responsibility statement

Fawzia Koofi

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan's most popular female politician. On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, Fawzia survived and became the favourite child. In Letters to My Daughters, Fawzia tells her remarkable life story. Fawzia 's father was an incorruptible politician strongly attached to Afghan tradition

Table Of Contents

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: September 2010; Part One; One: Just a Girl; Two: Stories of Old; Three: A Terrible Loss; Four: A New Start; Five: A Village Girl Again; Six: When Justice Dies; Seven: The War Within; Eight: Losing Her; Part Two; Nine: One Ordinary Thursday; Ten: Retreat to the North; Eleven: Everything Turns White; Twelve: A Taliban Wedding; Photographs; Thirteen: An End Before a Beginning; Fourteen: The Darkness Pervades; Fifteen: Back to My Roots; Sixteen: A Daughter for a Daughter; Seventeen: The Darkness Lifts; Eighteen: A New Purpose

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