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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight
Maria Toorpakai
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Description for A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; BM; BTP; HRAM6; WSJR4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.
'Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfilment and genuine personhood' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Maria Toorpakai Wazir has lived her life disguised as a boy, defying the Taliban, in order to pursue her love of sport. Coming second in a national junior weightlifting event for boys, Maria decided to put her future in her ... Read more
'Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfilment and genuine personhood' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Maria Toorpakai Wazir has lived her life disguised as a boy, defying the Taliban, in order to pursue her love of sport. Coming second in a national junior weightlifting event for boys, Maria decided to put her future in her ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509800810
SKU
V9781509800810
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About Maria Toorpakai
Born in 1990 to a Pashtun family in South Waziristan, a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, Maria is currently ranked fifty-fourth in the world and is Pakistan Number One at squash. The only way Maria could play sport as a girl was to disguise herself as a boy. When her gender was eventually revealed in order for her to ... Read more
Reviews for A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight
It's hard enough to become the best in the world at anything. It's even harder when people want to kill you just for trying.
Mary Carillo - NBC Sports A vivid personal account of a courageous young woman standing up to one of the world's most oppressive theocracies
Kirkus Reviews Beyond Brave
Sunday Express A remarkably vivid ... Read more
Mary Carillo - NBC Sports A vivid personal account of a courageous young woman standing up to one of the world's most oppressive theocracies
Kirkus Reviews Beyond Brave
Sunday Express A remarkably vivid ... Read more