The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 03/15/2011

Synopsis

""We're far more accustomed to—and comfortable with—seeing women portrayed as victims of war who deserve our sympathy rather than as resilient survivors who demand our respect…"" Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, calls “one of the most inspiring books I have ever read,” Lemmon recounts with novelistic vividness the true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.

About Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to Atlantic Media’s Defense One, writing on national security and foreign policy issues. She is the bestselling author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and has written for Newsweek, the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and the Daily Beast, as well as for the World Bank and Harvard Business School.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

Gale Tzemach Lemmon offers us a profile in courage about a young woman who defied the daunting odds in Taliban-controlled Kabul to established a business that offered employment, income and hope to her family and neighbors, at a time when all three were in very short supply. One of the many awful asp......more

Goodreads review by Danielle

2014 F.A.B. Bookclub pick # I.❤️. F.A.B.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

A flawed book with the best of intentions The Taliban arrived in Kabul the day Kamila Sidiqi received her teaching certificate. Shortly thereafter, the teenager became the unofficial head of a large household of younger siblings (mostly female) after her parents and teenage brother fled to safety in......more

Goodreads review by Jenni

I was given this book as required reading at University of Florida, as a part of our "common reading" program where every Freshman receives the same book so that we share a common "intellectual experience". Let me say two things: 1) There was nothing intellectual whatsoever going on with this book. 2)......more

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