The Girls from Afghanistan: Tales of war and of love woven into the knots of a rug (MIDDLE EASTERN NOTEBOOKS)
The Girls from Afghanistan: Tales of war and of love woven into the knots of a rug (MIDDLE EASTERN NOTEBOOKS)

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The Girls from Afghanistan: Tales of war and of love woven into the knots of a rug (MIDDLE EASTERN NOTEBOOKS)

Book: Paperback 05 - 03 - 2015

Product ID: 4420287

Condition: New
Publisher : Fayaz Editore

Language : english

Paperback : 284 Pages

ISBN-10 : 8890928611

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Presentation “The Girls from Afghanistan” tells of the meeting between a rug dealer and Azar, an Afghan girl from Herat, during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the nineteen eighties. Hossein, the dealer, returns to his country of origin to visit relatives and buy rugs to sell in Italy, the country he has resided in since the sixties. On his arrival he discovers that rugs are for sale with completely new motifs. He is curious about the descriptions and seeks out these rugs. His inquiries take him to Dogharon, the Iranian refugee camp on the Afghan border, where hundreds of Afghans are sheltering after the Russian invasion. At the camp he meets Arash, the head of the Afghan clan Kuroshi, from Do-Ab, his young daughter Azar and other girls: the youthful Neda, the weaver Ozra, who will tell the incredible story of Najibe, an eleven-year-old child who was taken from the presidential palace and thrown into prison. He will purchase ‘talking rugs’ from Azar and Ozra, woven with symbols that tell a painful story – their own and that of the Afghan people. The painstaking translation into English by Katherine Margaret Clifton of the second edition of ‘The Girls from Afghanistan’ has been enriched with maps, photographs and an updated historical timeline. There are also three important final chapters: a glossary of the Persian terminology (Farsi Dari) used in the book; a timeline of important historical events in Iran and Afghanistan from 1499 to 2015 and ‘a conversation with the author, Hossein Fayaz’.

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