Bibliograph

The dressmaker of Khair Khana, five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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The dressmaker of Khair Khana, five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The dressmaker of Khair Khana

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Sub title

five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe

Summary

The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan. 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. 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

Target audience

adult

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