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The Sleeping Buddha : The Story of One Family's Past and Afghanistan's Search for a Future
by Ghafour, Hamida
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1552786447
- ISBN 13
- 9781552786444
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About This Item
Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2007 Book. New. Hardcover. 1sr Canadian Edition. "Hamida Ghafour and her family fled Kabul in 1981 when the Russians invaded. In this memoir, she tells how she went back in 2003 as a journalist to cover the country's post-9/11 reconstruction." "As Hamida is drawn deeper into her country's present, other members of her family come to life for us - her great-grandfather the Sufi mystic, her poetess grandmother who urged women to unveil, her great-uncle who wrote the first democratic constitution, her brave cousin Bahodine who paid for his views with his life. Her parents and their student days of hamburgers, hunting trips with American hippies and searches for the perfect pomegranate. In her family's past she finds the story of Afghanistan itself." "She finds its future in people like the Midwestern beautician teaching women a new kind of independence, her cousin the parliamentary candidate and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization - in the form of a giant Sleeping Buddha." 336p.bibliography. index..
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Sleeping Buddha : The Story of One Family's Past and Afghanistan's Search for a Future
- Author
- Ghafour, Hamida
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1sr Canadian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1552786447
- ISBN 13
- 9781552786444
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Afghanistan Women refugees biography afghans in canada Afghani-Canadian writers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Afghanistan; Autographs;
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