Monday, October 25, 2010
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Tamim Ansary talks about The Widow's Husband, a novel set in a mid-nineteenth-century Afghan village that looks at England and Russia's battle for control of Afghanistan from an Afghan point of view. Listen to a longer episode on Wordpress. BOOK, KINDLE
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Photo: Courtesy of the author
Pesha Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:19am
From what I've read--like the story of the 18-year-old woman whose jealous husband sliced off her nose and ears then left her for dead--it seems to me that this tale gives Afghani women more influence than they actually have.
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