Full name: Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of the Women of Afghanistan

Author: Zarghuna Kargar Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Feminism, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781402268373 1402268378

Moving, enlightening, and heartbreaking, Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of Afghan women. For the first time, Dear Zari allows these women to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end of a family feud, to a life spent in a dark, dusty room weaving carpets, from a young girl being brought up as a boy, to a woman living as a widow shunned by society. Intimate, emotional, painful and uplifting, these stories uncover the suffering and strength of women in this deeply religious and intensely traditional society, and show how their courage is an inspiration to women everywhere. Similar books: Zoya's Story by John Follain Kabul in Winter by Ann Jones My Forbidden Face by Latifa Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep by Siba Shakib The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad In the Graveyard of Empires by Seth G. Jones A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar The Places In Between by Rory Stewart The Wrong War by Bing West Soldiers of God by Robert D. Kaplan The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja Bone Black by Bell Hooks The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy