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Annisa, Daughter of Afghanistan

Price:

$9.95

Author:

Kathleen MacArthur

Publisher:

Kathleen MacArthur (All Products by Kathleen MacArthur)

Publish Date:

Nov 02, 2004

ISBN:

1-58909-227-9

Category:

Current Events

Language:

English

Type:

Downloadable

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Summary:

Set internationally and spanning two decades, Annisa is an emotion-packed adventure of appalling violence intermixed with a compelling love story.

The highly educated and emancipated daughter of a Kabul University professor, Annisa attempts to escape Afghanistan after the Russian invasion. Raised without the veil, she discovers on this harrowing journey the roots of her culture and her own internal conflict regarding her role as a woman. Her friendship with a Russian deserter and a volunteer American doctor provides an intimate portrait of forces in her life that are staggeringly different. But it is her love for a captain in the Afghan army that drives her.

In a society torn apart by terrorism, drug smuggling, and the ambitions of powerful international cartels, Annisa�s story provides illuminating insights into the struggle of her people.

Author biography:

Kathleen MacArthur's previous book about Afghanistan, Spies Behind the Pillars, Bandits at the Pass, was based on a series of articles she wrote for the Kabul Times while living and working in Kabul in the late 1960's. In order to gather material for her weekly column, "Afghan Diary", she traveled extensively in the country. Her book was broadcast in its entirety several times over the Voice of America.

Although Annisa is fictional, many of the incidents included in the book are true stories of Afghan refugees that Mrs. MacArthur interviewed in Washington D.C. after they had escaped to the West. The University of Nebraska at Omaha has published excerpts from Annisa in its Afghan Studies Journal.

A former press secretary of the Joint Economic Committee and a speechwriter on Capitol Hill, she worked for Senators John Sherman Cooper, Hubert Humphrey and Lloyd Bentsen. She left the Congress to study English literature at Oxford University in England.

Born in Wichita, Kansas and educated at the University of Kansas, Mrs. MacArthur is the mother of three children and now lives with her husband in Savannah, Georgia and Monpazier, France.

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