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Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9780007142521 ISBN: 0007142528 Label: Flamingo Manufacturer: Flamingo Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 338 Publication Date: 2003-01 Publisher: Flamingo Studio: Flamingo Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One Kalashnikov, Two Grenades, Three Rifles....So the most popular elementary school primer teaches students, post-Taliban, how to count. In this war torn country, murder and torture provide more common shared experiences than going out for pizza. Lamb intersperses her passion for education, with stories about dozens of Afghanis, creating a mosaic of a culture where people fight for fun, or vengeance or for any number of reasons, but whatever, violence seems to be in the dna of the people of this land. So does a desire to learn, no matter ... Read More Rating: - Much more than sewing circlesLamb's title is misleading. The sewing circles which hid clandestine education for women forbidden by the Taliban, are but a minor part of the author's travels in Afghanistan in two main periods, the war against the Russians and just after the defeat of the Taliban. This is a terrible account of what war does to destroy a land and of the inhumanity of life under the strict Islam of the Taliban. Who can imagine what it must have been like to live under a regime where all picture, music and even laughter ... Read More Rating:  - Great reporting from a journalist with experience in Afghanistan over decadesChristina Lamb is a journalist who spent several years in Afghanistan in the 1980s and then returned after the US-led invasion in 2001. She is clearly an adventurous type, and ended up hiding in ditches with mujaheddin under fire, among other things. Some of her friends ended up in the Taliban, while another (Hamid Karzai) is now the post-Taliban president of the country. The book combines stories from both periods, as well as stories from friends about life under the Taliban. You'll meet ... Read More |
