My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story
by Latifa
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Author: LatifaEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-07-09
ISBN: 1401359256
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Miramax
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Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great little book which gives a personal, moving account of the years after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. I'd recommend it to anyone with a desire to know more about that part of the world.
Summary of My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story
Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa had a conventional childhood. Then, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. And from that moment, Latifa, just sixteen, became a prisoner in her own home. The simplest and most basic freedoms were forbidden. She was forced to put on a chadri, the state-mandated uniform that covered her entire body. Disbelief at having to hide herself was soon replaced by fear, the fear of being whipped or stoned like women she'd seen. My Forbidden Face provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and replaced by a world where terror and oppression reign.General Books
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