An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
Phyllis Chesler,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Palgrave Macmillan on 10-01-2013
Phyllis Chesler,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Palgrave Macmillan on 10-01-2013
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780230342217 (0230342213)
ASIN: 9780230342217
Publish date: 01-10-2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Jewish,
Religion,
Womens,
Islam
Actual rating: 3.5 stars. Partly because, yes, I think some of this was poorly edited, and partly because I don't feel right giving a full four stars to any book that needs a warning label. Like the one I'm giving it right now: Do NOT read this if you're already bummed out. It was stupid of me to pi...
This is much more than a memoir. It is a little over simplified, but in this brief little book lives an excellent summary of the history of Afghanistan with regard to women, Jews, Communists, the Taliban and other terrorists, in a patriarchal society of omniscient men, and it takes us right up to th...
This is much more than a memoir. It is a little over simplified, but in this brief little book lives an excellent summary of the history of Afghanistan with regard to women, Jews, Communists, the Taliban and other terrorists, in a patriarchal society of omniscient men, and it takes us right up to th...
The blurb for An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler is enticing -”Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family...
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