Under An Afghan Sky Under An Afghan Sky

Under An Afghan Sky

A Memoir of Captivity

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Publisher Description

In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung’s days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2011
May 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Harper Perennial
SELLER
Harper Collins Canada Limited
SIZE
7.5
MB

Customer Reviews

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Under an Afghan Sky

It is rare to find a story so compelling that you must keep reading, even though you already know the final outcome. Reading this book has had me laughing out loud and half a page later struggling to hold back tears. A wonderful gripping account of an unimaginable event.

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