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Samira and Samir [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Siba Shakib (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd; Large type edition edition (1 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843958899
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843958895
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Synopsis
The extraordinary true story of a young Afghan girl following her heart in a man's world...When Samira is born, her father - a commander fighting in the mountains - is disappointed. He wanted a son. So he decides to bring her up as a boy, known as Samir, and soon the fact that Samir is really a girl has been forgotten. Samir learns to fight, ride and shoot, and when her father is killed, she becomes head of the family. However, as an adult, Samir's love for the friend of her youth forces her to confess the truth. She wants to live as Bashir's wife, but in return she must give up her freedom...

About the Author
Born in Iran, Siba Shakib grew up in Tehran and attended a German school there. A writer and maker of documentaries and films, she has travelled to Afghanistan many times over the last five years, visiting the north as well as the territory that was commanded by the Taliban. Several of her documentaries have won awards, including the moving testimonials she has made of the horrors of life in Afghanistan and the plight of the Afghan women. She lives in New York and Germany. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Reading-Excellent, 2 Oct 2006
By M. Mukhtar "Moazma" (UK, Manchester) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samira and Samir: The Heart Rendering Story of Love and Oppression in Afghanistan (Paperback)
This book was a very good read. I was enticed in the book from the moment i started it to the moment i put it down.

It is a story about a father who wants a boy so desperately that he bring up his first child a girl' as a boy. Her parents didn't have anymore children, so her father continue to treat Samira as a boy and taught her to fight, ride horses, shoot and many more men tasks. This is a very difficult senario to be in for Samira/Samir and the older she got the more difficult it became for her. Her father didn't have to bear the affects of this, as he died when Samira was still a child. It only became difficult when she fell in love with a friend that she realised that the effects of being a girl will change her future. The problems arised when the girl started developing into a female that her destinity had to be changed and only Samira on her own had to decide what she wanted to be at the time and what she wanted to become in the future.

Samira showed courage, strength and showed those people that identify women as weak that they can be as strong as men are. Samira became her mother's strength and she became her grandfathers missing arm. She wasn't scared and dealt and acted as men did naturally and found it difficult to behave as a real women when she really had to try too for her love of her friend who became her husband.

It is one of the best books i have read and the style of writing is very diffent, but good.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!!, 6 Jan 2006
By Emma Kenworthy (Peterborough, Cambs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samira and Samir: The Heart Rendering Story of Love and Oppression in Afghanistan (Paperback)
This book is absolutely amazing I just could not put it down my family were neglected for 3 days!!! Kept having to remind myself it was a true story, absolutely unbelievable. However I dont know if this is a good thing or a bad thing but the ending was most unsatisfying and left me desperate to know what happens to Samira / Samir, how did Siba Shakib learn of her story I have so many burning unanswered questions!!! Would make a fantastic film, as long as the dialect is left how it is, as americanising it with hollywood, would totally ruin this romantcaly written biography.
I need a follow up book for my sanity!!!!!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Enthralling, 27 Aug 2005
This review is from: Samira and Samir: The Stunning True Story of Love and Freedom in Afghanistan (Paperback)
This book was impossible to leave down and I read it in 2 days. An absolutely entralling tale of a girl who was forced to live her life as a male. Excellently written, with every last detail perfectly described, I would recommend this book 100%
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