![]() ![]() The Taliban enjoyed inflicting pain whilst her dad was simply trying to improve her mum. Fawzia is happy that this attitude is slowly changing but is able to differentiate between this and the cruel treatment handed out by the Taliban, during their reign. ![]() I will not lie, at times it is hard for me to go along with her views - when she was young, her father would beat her mum should the rice served to guests not be sufficiently fluffy. This book tells, in her own words, both her struggle to get to her lofty position and something of her belief structure. She is also an inspiration, not just to women, not just to the Afghan population, but to every human being. You may by now, be,reasonably, asking what this has to do with a book review: the amazing thing that this book did was to turn me, for a couple of hours, into a young Afghan lady.Fawzia Koofi is the speaker of the Afghan Parliament. This is one of the most amazing: I have told you my age, I will now also divulge that I am a white middle class (OK very much lower middle class - poor as a church mouse) Englishman who has travelled no further than France and Belgium. Needless to say then, that many many books have found their way into my hands. I am 56 years old my mother taught me to read before I was knee high to the proverbial grasshopper - and I took to it. ![]()
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