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Original Title:	The Underground Girls of Kabul
ISBN:	8535926968 (ISBN13: 9788535926965)
Edition Language:	Portuguese URL http://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=13712
Setting:	Kabul(Afghanistan)
Literary Awards:	J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2015), Ryszard Kapuściński Prize Nominee (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)

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Durante cinco anos de pesquisas no Afeganistão, a repórter Jenny Nordberg descobriu que algumas famílias criam suas filhas como se fossem meninos, tentando fazer com que a comunidade acredite que as crianças são de fato do sexo masculino. A prática, conhecida como “bacha posh”, foi revelada por Jenny em reportagem de grande repercussão no New York Times. Embora o Talibã tenha deixado o poder em 2001, muito do que aquela milícia fundamentalista acreditava sobre as mulheres continua em voga. Este livro mostra em detalhe os horrores de um ambiente machista, e serve de alerta para a comunidade internacional sobre um crime que nenhum relativismo cultural é capaz de atenuar.

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Title	:	As Meninas Ocultas de Cabul
Author	:	Jenny Nordberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 424 pages
Published	:	March 3rd 2016 by Companhia das Letras (first published 2014)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Feminism. History. Politics. Womens. Gender. Religion

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This is a book in search of a good editor. It could have been told in far fewer words! It got tiresome after about 150 pages.

3.5I can read a 300 page novel in a day but it took me a really long time to read this book, I mean months. The reason is that I could only take it in small doses. It's dry. It's depressing and its content takes digesting.I'm really interested in the lives of woman in Afghanistan (or any culture so far removed from my own). My first degree was in anthropology and the reason was that the way people live fascinates me. This isn't the first time I've tried to get a handle on the Afghani culture and

Like many New York Times readers, I read Nordbergs first article on girls disguised as boys in Afghanistan and was fascinated. Its a topic that deserved a book, and fortunately Nordberg went deeper and wrote one.This book relates many stories of girls disguised as boys, and women disguised as men. Sometimes changing a girl to a boy is done to raise the familys social standing, as both fathers and mothers are looked down upon for not producing sons. Sometimes its done for practical reasons:

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Norberg is an excellent piece of investigative journalism. Ms. Nordberg based her book on interviews. She became aware of the not much talked about custom of girls dressing as boys. This is a country where men have all the privileges and rights, women are nothing. Women very rarely divorce their husbands because the children are the husbands property. Why does this happen? After reading this book, you can only

Yes, this is not normal for you . . . its very hard for you to believe why one mother is doing these things to her youngest daughter. But . . . some things are happening in Afghanistan that really are not imaginable for you as a Western people. If youve read Nadia Hashimi's novel The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and found it captivating, or you have an interest in oppressive issues faced by Afghanistan women and children, then you will certainly want to add The Underground Girls of Kabul to your

Disclaimer: ARC read via Netgalley. ARC did not have pictures. I requested this book because I read Nordbergs original piece for the New York Times. In certain parts of the world, Afghanistan only being one, there is a strong emphasis put on the importance of sons. A womans only duty is to give birth to sons, or mostly sons. Women in these cultures are usually seen as less important, less valuable. However, there is a tradition, as Nordberg discovered, of taking a girl and transforming her

Visit my blog, www.sarahsbookshelves.com, for the full review:HeadlineThe Underground Girls of Kabul is an extremely readable, yet heart-breaking and eye-opening immersion in a culture that is brutal to women. It would also make a great choice for book clubs.What I Liked- This is one of those books where you learn a ton, but dont realize it. I felt like I was just reading a story, but I might as well have been taking a course on life in Afghanistan (particularly for women), Islam, the Taliban,