THE STORYTELLER'S DAUGHTER
Saira Shah, . . Knopf, $24 (254pp) ISBN 978-0-375-41531-9
Born in England and raised on her father's fantastic stories of an Afghanistan she had never known, Shah spends her adult life searching for a mythic place of beauty. "Any Western adult might have told me that this was an exile's tale of a lost Eden: the place you dream about, to which you can never return. But even then, I wasn't going to accept that." What she finds is a place ravaged by decades of war, poverty and, later, religious puritanism. Shah first visits Afghanistan in 1986 as a war correspondent at the remarkable age of 21 and later returns as the documentary producer of
Reviewed on: 09/01/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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