A Different Kind of Daughter - The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight

Informationen zum Autor Maria Toorpakai Klappentext A powerful memoir about a young Pakistani girl who! until the age of twelve! was disguised as a boy so she could compete in sports. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter - 1: PrologueChapter - 2: Between the MountainsChapter - 3: The MullahChapter - 4: An Unlikely BrideChapter - 5: Genghis KhanChapter - 6: Bhutto's MuseChapter - 7: The WallChapter - 8: the City of GunsChapter - 9: Deities! Temples and AngelsChapter - 10: Out of the Tribal LandsChapter - 11: The Capital of EmpiresChapter - 12: I Am MariaChapter - 13: Playing Like a GirlChapter - 14: Smoking ScorpionsChapter - 15: Rupees for My MotherChapter - 16: The Giver of TreasureChapter - 17: Number OneChapter - 18: In the CrosshairsChapter - 19: PurdahChapter - 20: Breakbone FeverChapter - 21: Liberty BellChapter - 22: Epilogue: One Thousand MariasAcknowledgements - 23: AcknowledgmentsChapter - 24: About the AuthorsChapter - 25: A Letter about MariaToorpakai.org

Product details

• Authors: Maria Toorpakai Wazir, Wazir Maria Toorpak
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2016
• EAN: 9781509800780
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-0078-0
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Frau; Berichte, Erinnerungen, Pakistan : Berichte, Erinnerungen