{"product_id":"9780060783785_storytellers-daughter","title":"Storyteller's Daughter","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThe startling memoir of a young woman \u003cbr\u003eshaped by two dramatically disparate worlds\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive Western liberal, part fearless (even fierce) life-gulping Afghan, falling in love with her ancestral myth, chasing Afghanistan. Saira, at 21, becoming a correspondent at the front during the war between the Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then Saira, self-imprisoned in a burqa, risking her life to film Beneath the Veil -- her acclaimed record of the devastation of women's lives by the Taliban. Saira discovering her extended family, discovering a world of gorgeous family ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, finding at last the (now war-ravaged) family seat, discovering at last what she wants and what she rejects of her compelling heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saira Shah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46900142538901,"sku":"9780060783785","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780060783785.png?v=1777422867","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780060783785_storytellers-daughter","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}