In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan's most popular female politician. On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, Fawzia survived and became the favourite child. In Letters to My Daughters, Fawzia tells her remarkable life story. Fawzia 's father was an incorruptible politician strongly attached to Afghan tradition.
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: September 2010; Part One; One: Just a Girl; Two: Stories of Old; Three: A Terrible Loss; Four: A New Start; Five: A Village Girl Again; Six: When Justice Dies; Seven: The War Within; Eight: Losing Her; Part Two; Nine: One Ordinary Thursday; Ten: Retreat to the North; Eleven: Everything Turns White; Twelve: A Taliban Wedding; Photographs; Thirteen: An End Before a Beginning; Fourteen: The Darkness Pervades; Fifteen: Back to My Roots; Sixteen: A Daughter for a Daughter; Seventeen: The Darkness Lifts; Eighteen: A New Purpose.
Summary: In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan's most popular female politician. On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, Fawzia survived and became the favourite child. In Letters to My Daughters, Fawzia tells her remarkable life story. Fawzia 's father was an incorruptible politician strongly attached to Afghan tradition.
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