by Jean Sasson, ISBN:9780385616270, R215.00
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Doubleday, 2010 - 320 pages
About the Book :- From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. Although she grew up in a privileged family, she had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life.
A new life of freedom in America seemed within her grasp, but her father had other ideas and arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. She escaped her brutal husband, but he kidnapped their little boy, and stole him away far beyond his mother's reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while hearing the most terrible stories of civil war and Taliban oppression from friends and relations back home in Afghanistan.
Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of "Princess", chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.
About the Author :- Jean Sasson is the sharp-eyed and compassionate chronicler of women's lives in the Muslim world. Author of the worldwide bestsellers Princess, Daughters of Arabia, Desert Royal, Mayada: Daughter of Iraq, Love in a Torn Land and Growing Up Bin Laden, she lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve years, and has travelled throughout the Middle East for thirty years. She currently makes her home in the Southern United States.
A new life of freedom in America seemed within her grasp, but her father had other ideas and arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. She escaped her brutal husband, but he kidnapped their little boy, and stole him away far beyond his mother's reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while hearing the most terrible stories of civil war and Taliban oppression from friends and relations back home in Afghanistan.
Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of "Princess", chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.
About the Author :- Jean Sasson is the sharp-eyed and compassionate chronicler of women's lives in the Muslim world. Author of the worldwide bestsellers Princess, Daughters of Arabia, Desert Royal, Mayada: Daughter of Iraq, Love in a Torn Land and Growing Up Bin Laden, she lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve years, and has travelled throughout the Middle East for thirty years. She currently makes her home in the Southern United States.
We have just received the below email from Maryam:
ReplyDeleteMy name is Maryam Khail, please read my story. The book published by Doubleday UK is available only on Amazon.com in he US. The book is authored by Jean Sasson but it is a narrative memoir by me, I was born into a powerful Pashtun family and am a survivor of the violence to which all Afghan women have been subjected under the Taliban and traditional Pashtun culture. The book is entitled FOR THE LOVE OF A SON Anyone considering a US and NATO pullout from Afghanistan, believing that a compromises are possible with the Taliban and Iran, needs to read this book to know what will happen to Afghan women. Karzai argues that it is better to stop their education than to subject them to death. That is explicitly a deal with the devil! My story and the stories of the women in my family, extending to my brutal Pashtun husband's kidnapping my son and hiring assassins to have me killed is itself chilling. But the child, raised with the Taliban and Al Queda is now a Schizophrenic young adult. This story presages a future Afghanistan populated by crippled women and schizoid men.
Maryam has kindly allowed us to include her email addy in case anyone wants to contact her:
ReplyDeletemaro_malo@hotmail.com