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009596
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2004
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Great Britain, Virago Press, 2002.
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280pCream Spine
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A female journalist from Norway moved in with the Khan family in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Disguised as she was behind the bulky, shapeless burka and escorted always by a man and even in Western dress, she was somehow anonymous and accepted readily into the bookseller's large extended family. Her account is of the tragedy, contradictions, rivalries, and daily frustrations of a middle-class Afghan family. She accompanied the women as they shopped and dressed for a wedding and was privy to the negotiations for the marriage. She tells of the death by suffocation of a young woman who met her lover in secret, the bored meanderings of a 12-year-old boy forced to work 12-hour days selling candy in a hotel lobby, and of going on a religious pilgrimage with a restless, frustrated teen. All this is recounted with journalistic objectivity in spite of her close ties to the Khans.
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9781844080472 Pb.
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| 009995 | FIC/SEI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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015615
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New York, Basic Books, 2005.
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322pDark Blue and Red Spine
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Provides a narrative of life in Iraq just before, during, and after the American invasion of March 2003, presenting the opinions and experiences of ordinary Iraqis attempting to carry on some semblance of normal life.
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0465076009 Hb.
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| I00643 | 956.70443/SEI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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