Finding My Way Author : Malala Yousafzai ISBN-13 : 978-1399619349 Publisher : W&N Guideline Price : £25
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021 happened as Malala Yousafzai was being wheeled into surgery. When she went under, the militants held four provincial capitals, she recalls in her new coming-of-age memoir, Finding My Way. When she came to in the recovery room, they held six.
It’s a striking illustration of the long-term impact of just one act of violence. Nine years after a Talib gunman boarded her school bus, asked for Malala by name, and shot her at point-blank range for her advocacy of girls’ education, she was still undergoing corrective surgeries.
It also speaks of failure.
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