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In my father's country : an Afghan woman defies her fate / Saima Wahab.

Wahab, Saima. (Author).
  • Description: 346 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers,
  • ISBN: 9780307884947
  • ISBN: 0307884945
  • ISBN: 9780307884954
  • ISBN: 0307884953

Available copies

  • 6 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

0 current holds with 7 total copies.

Library Location Call Number Status Due Date
Beverly Main NEW DS 371.43 .W35 A4 2012 (Text to phone) Checked out 05/20/2013
Gloucester Adult Nonfiction 920/WAHAB (Text to phone) Available -
Lynnfield Adult Nonfiction DS 371.43 .W35 Z4 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Peabody Main Adult Nonfiction NEW DS 371.43 .W35 A4 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Reading Adult New Nonfiction NEW B WAHAB WAH (Text to phone) Available -
Salem Adult Biography B/WAHAB,S./W (Text to phone) Available -
Stoneham Adult Biography Lower Level B WAHAB (Text to phone) Available -

Summary: Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.

Subject: Wahab, Saima > Travel > Afghanistan.
Afghan American women > Biography.
Postwar reconstruction > Afghanistan.
Women translators > Afghanistan > Biography.
Afghanistan > Social conditions > 21st century.