The Book Depository I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
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Description: I Am Malala : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780297870920 : : 17 Oct 2013 : The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban. The Book Depository I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: L Beck
Rating: 5
Review: We hear news stories from Afghanistan and Pakistan, about US drone strikes, about Osama Bin Laden, about the Taliban, about the rights (or absence of them) of women; but we need a book like this from someone who has grown up amongst all this to enable us to "taste" and "feel" what is going on. Malala is a remarkable young woman, if for no other reason than she read Professor Hawking's "Brief History of Time" at the age of 11. Here is a young girl growing up in the Swat Valley, passionately interested in improving herself and others through education, in spite of the fact that this was against the cultural and religious norms of her people. When the Taliban took hold and tried to bomb and shoot her community back to the Middle Ages (using 21st century weapons of course) Malala, her friends and family, found it harder and harder to carry on the fight for education, but they never gave up. As we all know, Malala was in due course shot for her trouble, was saved from near death, initially by a Pakistani military hospital, and later with essential medical follow-up treatment to complete her recovery so far as was possible by a British hospital. Malala's book taught me a great deal about the history of India and Pakistan, the proud Pashtun people (of whom she is one), and her interpretation of Islam. On this last point, although I am not religious myself, I found her religious views to be a beacon of light in the dark fog of fanatical Islamic views we have recently been exposed to by fundamentalists, hate preachers, and suicide bombers. To her, Islam is the very antithesis of all that. I was educated (about the Swat Valley and its people) angered (by the relentless lunacy of the Taliban), and inspired (by Malala's personal courage). This book is an essential read.
Author: HeyerFan
Rating: 4
Review: Malala is a global figure, courageous and inspirational. Of course like everyone else around at the time I knew her story from the media but I had never got around to reading her story in her own words. It is so much more powerful to do this, though I did find some of it (the political parts, acronyms) a bit hard going - Note: there is a glossary at the back. It is clear that Malala has a strong yearning to return to live in Pakistan and it wouldn’t surprise me if one day she were to be a politician in her home country but how many years in the future that may be is anyone’s guess. I wouldn’t think she is in any danger from the Taliban now; to kill her would be to make her a martyr and even more influential, however threats to her family could be a way of silencing her. In the meantime a good education (Oxford University) will stand her in good stead if she does indeed wish to follow in the footsteps of her role model Benazir Bhutto and her Malala Fund and campaigning is doing good around the world. I wish her all the best in her future.
