Bibliograph

Under an Afghan sky, a memoir of captivity, Mellissa Fung

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Under an Afghan sky, a memoir of captivity, Mellissa Fung

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Under an Afghan sky

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mellissa Fung

Sub title

a memoir of captivity

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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