The Dressmaker of Khair Khana takes place in 1996 and tells the story of a young woman named Kamila Sadiqi. She lives in Khair Khana, a district in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kamila has just earned her teaching degree and is excited to being her career as a school teacher. She is walking home one day an...
Overall, this book left me with a meh feeling. The history and social structure of Afghanistan from the time of King Shah through September 11, 2001 was very interesting and informative. I feel I gained an appreciation for what the Afghan people have gone through with the different regimes. Howe...
The author was a former journalist in Washington D.C. covering presidential campaigns. She left her job in 2005 to go to grad school. She wanted to do international development research and in that vein was going to interview women in war zones to see how they survived and managed to support themsel...
This was a book club read for me. Honestly, I wouldn't have chosen it to read if not for the fact that a prominent member of my book club group had a personal connection to the author; thus, she recommended it to the group. I rated this book 4 stars for the subject matter of the courageous women ...
"Be careful all the time: don't ever let your guard down and get comfortable, even for a moment, because that's all it takes for them to arrest you."This true-life memoir tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi and her sisters, living in Kabul, Afghanistan under Taliban rule. When the regime took over the...
This is an interesting look at the way in which a family of Afghan women came together in the Taliban era ,starting a tailoring business from scratch and using their skills and ingenuity to help many of their friends and neighbours survive in very difficult times.
This is an interesting look at the way in which a family of Afghan women came together in the Taliban era ,starting a tailoring business from scratch and using their skills and ingenuity to help many of their friends and neighbours survive in very difficult times.
This book had a very interesting topic, but I think it failed to deliver the severity of life for Afghan women during the Taliban years. The writing was poorly edited in parts, which left pockets of the story unexplained and rather confusing. Although I know the story was focused on Kamila's busines...
NO SPOILERS!!!On completion: It didn't take me very long to read this book, that is simply because I found it very interesting. In fact it won over browsing GR! When a book doesn't draw me, I usually find something else to do; I find all sorts of other things that have to be done. I do this unconsci...
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