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Shah, Saira. The Storyteller's Daughter.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 256p. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41531-9). 958.1046.
In April 2001, Shah, a journalist, traveled to Kabul to secretly document Taliban atrocities in Afghanistan. The result was the documentary film Beneath the Veil. But this was not Shah's first visit. Raised in England, her vision of her father's homeland was nurtured by romantic legends of pleasure gardens and noble mujahideen. When she made her first trip in 1986, a harrowing journey from Peshawar through the Hindu Kush to the front lines in the war with the Soviet Union, she was "chasing a myth." But by the time the Taliban took over in 1996, the disintegration of the myth was ...
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