Under an Afghan sky, a memoir of captivity, by Mellissa Fung
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Under an Afghan sky, a memoir of captivity, by Mellissa Fung
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eng
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Under an Afghan sky
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by Mellissa Fung
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a memoir of captivity
Summary
October, 2008. Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC's The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul when she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
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