by Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits - £10.99 Seven Stories Press (2006)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781583227275 | ISBN 10: 158322727x
Presents the true stories, collected by a newly wed couple in 2004, of fourteen ordinary women and men living in northeastern Afghanistan - eloped lovers, boys who marry at the age of twelve, feuding wives, Taliban and their victims, a Ukrainian defector from the Soviet army, and men & women who summon great courge and resourcefulness to deliver others from suffering and death, alongside those struggling to find forgiveness for their own acts of selfishness and cruelty.
"A beautiful, moving and haunting tapestry of individual lives in war-torn Afghanistan"
(Haleh Esfandiari)
(Price & availability last checked: May 2018)
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