A Bed of Red Flowers
by Nelofer Pazira
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0743281330
- ISBN 13
- 9780743281331
- Seller
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
Nelofer Pazira is a journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist living in Toronto. In 2001, she starred in the film Kandahar, which was loosely based on her journey to find a friend living in Afghanistan. Two years later she co-directed and produced the Gemini Award-winning documentary Return to Kandahar. A Bed of Red Flowers , her first book, won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize awarded by The Writers’ Trust of Canada. In an interview with Time magazine, Pazira explains the impetus for writing the book: “A lot of my memories were unhappy, and I didn’t want to revisit them. But making Kandahar , I was forced to think about those memories. Once we finished the movie, I felt that I had started something, and instead of closing that door, I should go through it.” She elaborates on her choice of genre in Embassy : "I realized that I had a choice of doing either a very academic book that would be a history of Afghanistan, but what new can I say about that? There are hundreds of books written on that subject, analyzing various periods, and I asked what else can I add to this that would be different, that would really add a unique touch? I realized what I could do that was different would be to write about what life was like when we lived there. I realized that nobody knows about that, and that people don't know what it was like to live in Afghanistan in those years before the Taliban." A regular contributor to CBC’s The National , Pazira has set up a charity – Dyana Afghan Women’s Fund – to provide education and skills training for women in the city of Kandahar.
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- Bookseller
- Redbrick Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012047
- Title
- A Bed of Red Flowers
- Author
- Nelofer Pazira
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0743281330
- ISBN 13
- 9780743281331
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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