{"id":3797,"date":"2003-11-07T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:49:07","slug":"the-storytellers-daughter-by-saira-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-storytellers-daughter-by-saira-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storyteller&#8217;s Daughter by Saira Shah [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/11\/Storytellers-Daughter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31744\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/11\/Storytellers-Daughter.jpg\" alt=\"Storyteller's Daughter\" width=\"289\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>As the British-born daughter of a writer of Sufi fables, Shah heard endless mystical tales of the family&#8217;s ancestral homeland of Afghanistan. At 21, Shah goes in search of those roots, eventually becoming a freelance journalist with rare access to both warlords and everyday people in a ravaged land. Caught between her Western upbringing and her family myths, Shah cannot stay away in spite of the dangers to her life, she eventually makes the acclaimed documentary <em>Beneath the Veil<\/em>, which captures the horrifying devastation of the female population of Afghanistan under Taliban rule. A wandering memoir that could have used one more edit, <em>Daughter<\/em> is nevertheless a rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2003-11-07-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, November 7, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3228\" title=\"Storyteller's Daughter\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/storytellers-daughter.jpg\" alt=\"Storyteller's Daughter\" width=\"124\" height=\"205\" \/>As the British-born daughter of a writer of Sufi fables, Shah heard endless mystical tales of the family&#8217;s ancestral homeland of Afghanistan. At 21, Shah goes in search of those roots, eventually becoming a freelance journalist with rare access to both warlords and everyday people in a ravaged land. Caught between her Western upbringing and her family myths, Shah cannot stay away in spite of the dangers to her life, she eventually makes the acclaimed documentary <em>Beneath the Veil<\/em>, which captures the horrifying devastation of the female population of Afghanistan under Taliban rule. A wandering memoir that could have used one more edit, <em>Daughter<\/em> is nevertheless a rare, much-needed glimpse into a still-closed society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2003-11-07-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, November 7, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,328,330,107,20,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,58,59,10,51,39,28,4452,4453],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-afghan","category-british-asian","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-politics","tag-saira-shah","tag-storytellers-daughter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Storyteller&#039;s Daughter by Saira Shah [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-storytellers-daughter-by-saira-shah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Storyteller&#039;s Daughter by Saira Shah [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the British-born daughter of a writer of Sufi fables, Shah heard endless mystical tales of the family&#039;s ancestral homeland of Afghanistan. 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