Price New from Used from Hardcover 'Please retry' 10.24 10.24 4. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope.Įarlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. Buy My Forbidden Face : Growing up Under the Taliban, A Young Womans Story 01 edition (9781401359256) by Latifa and Linda Translator Coverdale for up to. My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story By Latifa Hardcover Apby -Author-(Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars74 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. My Forbidden Face frames a fragment of Afghanistans bloody history through the eyes of its author, Latifa. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers.
From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul.
Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980.
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