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is a book that is very similar to Zoya's Story, another book about a young Afghan girl trying to survive before and during the Taliban as well as the Soviet invasion in.


It must be the masochist in me that keeps returning to the most evil, sadistic, cruel antiwoman country on the planet, where you could have your hands chopped off for wearing nail polish and where women were not allowed to work or be seen by a male doctor, meaning women were unable to get any health care at all.


Besides mention of animal slaughter/sacrifices, lack of food, electricity, arranged marriages to strangers, rape, murder, beatings, bombings, it is truly hell on earth and every time I keep thinking that Time Magazine was right when it voted this country as the worst on earth for women.


It's beyond the beyond, The devil is alive and doing very well there, This book is astonishing in many ways, Latifa's writing is beautiful, even if it's translated, This book has transformed what I thought I knew about the Afghani culture, . . I was absolutely shocked while reading it, My heart aches for Latifa and her family while reading about their struggles, I can't imagine living that way for so long, Now I really want to know what has happened to them in the past decade! Latifa is so full of hope and sounds like an amazing woman.
Her entire family sounds like they'd be people I would like to know, I'm so, so glad I read this book, . . EVERYONE should read it. sitelink bookcrossing. com/journal/

I bought this book out of curiosity, All the discussions about burqa's, voiles, women covering their head, I wanted t know more about the country that is, for me, symbolic for the burqa, It was in a report on Afghanistan that I first saw these blue things that women were hiding in.

Once again I am happy that I grew up and live in a free country, . . To have to fight for your human let alone female rights, have to hide yourself and your ideas.
. . I stil cannot imagine what that must be like,
But, I admire on the other hand the spirit of the women: to never give up, find ways to be themselves, be it under the cover of a burqa, trying to find ways to bend the rules, or even break them.
This book took medays to read and this is such a thin little book, I did think it was interesting, the life of the people of Afghanistan, but it wasn't like, i want to know more, I cannot stop reading.
To be honest this book was a bit of a bore, There are much better accounts like this one, I do think it was okay though, Glad that I was able to read,.out ofthe content is so interesting, so little i know as an american, her writing is simple. . not particularly great, but very readable, she is a journalist at heart, and her book is writtne much in this way, This book is a young woman's story who changed her name to Latifa, It's the life of a girl who is in an ongoing war against the Taliban, There life is hard but they are trying there best to survive the Taliban, Latifa got to go to Paris and write her story which is the book, Basically it's a really good and interesting ing book to read, It's very exiting and has a lot of detail, I would suggest those who like sad book or books that have war should try it, It's a short book not that long, Even though I have called it a YA book, it would take a gutsy young person to grapple with even reading what Latifa experiences.
This is a coming of age story that makes most of the ones we read seem very soft and makes authors like sitelinkJohn Green seem trivial by comparison to be fair Latifa has the advantage of a true story which is always going to be more urgent.
It is not that the protagonist wouldnt

like the selfindulgence of angst about a boy or of spoiling herself to make up for how hard life is, it is just that she lives in such horrifyingly repressive circumstances even though surrounded by a loving and supportive family that just mentally surviving is her biggest challenge and there is physical danger too.


There is horrifically graphic violence and a lot of references to rape in the book and I hate that sort of thing, I would prefer not to read it.
The fact that it is a real experience of ayear old woman made me feel I needed to face it.
The horror is everpresent but does not dominate, What dominates is the courage, love and shining humanity of Latifa's family and friend, I found the story of the teacher inspirational though horrifying and could not believe these teenaged girls took on that very dangerous work for themselves! There are heroic characters in the book, both male and female and the way Latifa's family look after each other through this and respect each other's differences, needs and strengths was also remarkable.


Latifa is honest about beginning as a somewhat spoiled girl, who has not been particularly political or heroic.
She has run an underground newspaper but largely to talk about film and makeup, she is interested in weddings and dresses.
She hopes to one day have a husband who will protect and look after her, This said she is intelligent and responsive to the kindness of her family which surrounds her, She is a survivor already, one of the hardest things to get my head around in the book was that living with the constant danger of rockets falling on their city was the SAFE period of their lives compared to what came next when the Taliban came in.


As life gets awful Latifa's very natural instinct is retreat and depression, She makes the point that she has no wish to be a hero or to resist, she just wants not to suffer.
As the reality of her situation hits home, Latifa sees the horrifying plight of others even less fortunate than herself.
Her family are full of compassion, intelligence and the need to respond to the suffering of others and she gets infected with this way of viewing the world.
She is calmly courageous even though she would still like an ordinary teenage life with movies and lipstick and weddings.


I could not conceive of the courage of this family again and again!

I wish all Islamophobes could read this book and see that the Taliban is not Islam, that there are families full of compassion and courage also within that religion.
I think anyone who is able to deal with the horrifying constant fear and violence in the book it's confronting enough just to read about it ought to read it to gain some perspective.


It is hard to getout of me these days, but this book was so vital and grittily brave that I could not give it less.
This is a book about a young girl who grew up in Soviet occupied Afghanistan and wasyears old when the Taliban came.
The most profound thing I learned is how the change that women experienced under the Taliban was literally overnight at least for those who lived in Kabul.
One day this girl was going to school and applying for college, Her sister worked for the airlines, The next day all businesses were closed, the radio and television stations were off the air, and women could not leave the house unaccompanied.
The book also provides good insight about how the Afgahnis viewed the worlds' response and how the women defied the Taliban.
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