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A Bed of Red Flowers : In Search of My Afghanistan
por Pazira, Nelofer
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- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0679312714
- ISBN 13
- 9780679312710
- Livreiro
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sinopse
Nelofer Pazira is a journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist living in Toronto. In 2001, she starred in the film Kandahar, which was loosely based on her journey to find a friend living in Afghanistan. Two years later she co-directed and produced the Gemini Award-winning documentary Return to Kandahar. A Bed of Red Flowers , her first book, won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize awarded by The Writers’ Trust of Canada. In an interview with Time magazine, Pazira explains the impetus for writing the book: “A lot of my memories were unhappy, and I didn’t want to revisit them. But making Kandahar , I was forced to think about those memories. Once we finished the movie, I felt that I had started something, and instead of closing that door, I should go through it.” She elaborates on her choice of genre in Embassy : "I realized that I had a choice of doing either a very academic book that would be a history of Afghanistan, but what new can I say about that? There are hundreds of books written on that subject, analyzing various periods, and I asked what else can I add to this that would be different, that would really add a unique touch? I realized what I could do that was different would be to write about what life was like when we lived there. I realized that nobody knows about that, and that people don't know what it was like to live in Afghanistan in those years before the Taliban." A regular contributor to CBC’s The National , Pazira has set up a charity – Dyana Afghan Women’s Fund – to provide education and skills training for women in the city of Kandahar.
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- Livreiro
- Hourglass Books
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 004207
- Título
- A Bed of Red Flowers : In Search of My Afghanistan
- Autor
- Pazira, Nelofer
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- Edição
- Canadian First
- ISBN 10
- 0679312714
- ISBN 13
- 9780679312710
- Editorial
- Random House of Canada
- Local de publicação
- Toronto, Ont
- Data de publicação
- 2005
- Palavras-chave
- Afghanistan - History
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