Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-

Title:

A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight / Maria Toorpakai with Katharine Holstein.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Twelve, 2016.

Description:

viii, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm

Summary:

"Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram--un-Islamic, forbidden--and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country's fierce battle over women's rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-

Taliban.

Women squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.

Squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.

Passing (Identity) -- Pakistan.

Escapes -- Pakistan.

Women's rights -- Pakistan.

Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions.

Women athletes -- Pakistan -- Social conditions.

Pakistan -- Social conditions.

Other Author:

Holstein, Katharine.

Contents:

Prologue: A prophecy -- Between the mountains -- The Mullah -- An unlikely bride -- Genghis Khan -- Bhutto's muse -- The wall -- The city of guns -- Deities, temples, and angels -- Out of the tribal lands -- The capital of empires -- I am Maria -- Playing like a girl -- Smoking scorpions -- Rupees for my mother -- The giver of treasure -- Number one -- In the crosshairs -- Purdah -- Breakbone fever -- Liberty bell -- Epilogue: One thousand Marias.

LCCN:

2015050405

ISBN:

9781455591411

1455591416

Other Number:

928613949

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

586363

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BIO Toorpaka