The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them SafeBy Gayle Tzemach LemmonNarrated by Sarah Zimmerman
Length6h 16m

About this audiobook

"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.

Audiobook details

GenrePolitics and Government, Biography and Memoir, Psychology
Length6 hrs 16 mins
Narrated bySarah Zimmerman
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 15, 2011
LanguageEnglish

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