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Annisa, Daughter of Afghanistan
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Kathleen MacArthur
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Set internationally and spanning two decades, Annisa is an emotion-packed adventure of appalling violence intermixed with a compelling love story.
The highly educated and emancipated daughter of a Kabul University professor, Annisa attempts to escape Afghanistan after the Russian invasion. Raised without the veil, she discovers on this harrowing journey the roots of her culture and her own internal conflict regarding her role as a woman. Her friendship with a Russian deserter and a volunteer American doctor provides an intimate portrait of forces in her life that are staggeringly different. But it is her love for a captain in the Afghan army that drives her.
In a society torn apart by terrorism, drug smuggling, and the ambitions of powerful international cartels, Annisa’s story provides illuminating insights into the struggle of her people.
Reviews of "Spies Behind the Pillars, Bandits at the Pass". Published by David McKay and the author's first book on Afghanistan.
"It's an unblinkered, openly receptive view of Afghanistan." Kirkus Review
"A book worth reading for its fresh and clear-eyed perceptions of a fascinating land an people." The New Yorker
"One regrets reaching the last page because it marks the end of a fine book" The Seattle Times
"Written with genuine warmth and a sense of humor." Booklist
"This is a well-written chronology of an American family in Afghanistan." Louisville-Courier Journal
"This book is chatty but is really very good." Kansas City Star
"An amusing, informative travelogue worth the attention of any reader who lives to travel by armchair." Boston Evening Globe
"This book will soon give the federal government's foreign service establishment fits." Washington Daily News
"Well written and authentic." Library Journal
"Presented with honesty and forth-rightness, "Spies" is a woman's book...but a lot of men in the State Department and the CIA might do well to examine it." San Diego Union
"Sometimes humorous, sometimes acerbic, it is always an acute account...projects a compassion for the poor of Asia that adds a satisfying dimension." Publisher's Weekly
"An entertaining novel." The Pittsburgh Press
"My wife and I flipped over this book. It's gutsy, gutsy, funny...you learn about unusual places and people while laughing." Dan Rather, CBS News
"Fascinating...filled with humor and humanity. The characters are unforgettable...Sheer delight." Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent
"Having lived in Afghanistan at the same time as the author, I surely am biased, but I do think she "told it like it is." Helen Fogel, Foreign Service Journal
"Praise be. This is not yet another of those giggly, self-conscious books on innocents abroad...it is perceptive and compassionate." Houston Chronicle |
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Kathleen MacArthur's previous book about Afghanistan, Spies Behind the Pillars, Bandits at the Pass, was based on a series of articles she wrote for the Kabul Times while living and working in Kabul in the late 1960's. In order to gather material for her weekly column, "Afghan Diary", she traveled extensively in the country. Her book was broadcast in its entirety several times over the Voice of America.
Although Annisa is fictional, many of the incidents included in the book are true stories of Afghan refugees that Mrs. MacArthur interviewed in Washington D.C. after they had escaped to the West. The University of Nebraska at Omaha has published excerpts from Annisa in its Afghan Studies Journal.
A former press secretary of the Joint Economic Committee and a speechwriter on Capitol Hill, she worked for Senators John Sherman Cooper, Hubert Humphrey and Lloyd Bentsen. She left the Congress to study English literature at Oxford University in England.
Born in Wichita, Kansas and educated at the University of Kansas, Mrs. MacArthur is the mother of three children and now lives with her husband in Savannah, Georgia and Monpazier, France.
Email: kathleenmacarthur2000@yahoo.com
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