The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland by Saira Shah

The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

Saira Shah

272 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir travel emotional slow-paced
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The vivid, often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears presi...

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Moods

reflective 100%
adventurous 60%
emotional 40%
informative 40%
sad 40%
challenging 20%
dark 20%
tense 20%

Pace

slow 60%
medium 40%

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3.68

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