The Girls from Afghanistan

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Editorial Reviews
‘I read The Girls from Afghanistan as if your voice was accompanying me through the places and the situations, I almost seemed to be walking through that territory amongst the people whose culture and lives you know so well.’ Rosella Giannini (teacher) L’Ape del Conca (periodical)

‘A bridge between East and West seen through the eyes and the experiences of a rugs dealer that will amaze and stir the reader, evocative images and questions that have still not found an answer.’ Roberto Sarra (writer and literary critic) vogliadilibro.it

‘Rugs, like a canvas, tell stories through the colour of the threads and the knots of the feelings, the emotions of a group of women: Azar and Ozra the weavers, Najibe an eleven-year-old dragged from the presidential palace to a prison and sixteen-year-old Neda who has dreamed of marrying Siavash since she was a child.’ Matteo De Angelis (journalist) Resto del Carlino (daily newspaper)

‘In this story, made up of many stories woven like the knots in a rug, Hossein Fayaz deals with very topical matters.’ Giovanni Cioria (director of the periodical) La Piazza della Provincia

‘The Girls from Afghanistan deals with a topic that shocked public opinion thirty years ago, when the U.R.S.S. intervened in the affairs of the Afghan Republic as it, with great difficulty, tried to emancipate itself, and the subsequent institutional decline under the Taleban integralist government that destroyed the country and trampled on human rights.’ Silvio Di Giovanni (historian) La Piazza della Provincia

About the Author
Hossein Fayaz Torshizi was born in Iran (1943, Kashmar). Since November 1967 he has lived in Italy for study, and has been an Italian citizen from year 1981. He has been married for more than forty years to an Italian and they have a daughter and two grandchildren. He has also been an expert and technical consultant for the Chamber of Commerce and the Court on European and foreign rugs and tapestries since 1981.
Hossein Fayaz lives in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy and writes full-time. He is a cosmopolitan writer. In Italy he has published ‘Potere dei cittadini’ (Power of citizens: Tales of life experiences in Iran, Switzerland, Germany and Italy), 2014; ‘Il manuale dei tappeti’ (The carpet manual) A practical manual for the purchase and maintenance of oriental rugs, 2008; ‘Dialogo e Integrazione’ (Dialogue and integration), 2005; ‘Io musulmano in Italia – Quale Islam in Europa?’ (I am a Muslim in Italy. What Islam in Europe?), 2004.
In Iran he has published ‘East and West – Dialogue between friends’ Sharq & qarb – Goftvagu bin do dust (in Persian), 2005, Mashhad; ‘Iran, the reasons for the non-development’ Iran dalail adam roshd (in Persian), 2005, Mashhad; ‘The village teacher in Orteh-Cheshemeh – Quchan’ Amuzegar rustae Orteh-Cheshmeh – Quchan (in Persian), 1988, Teheran, Iran.

Titolo: The Girls from Afghanistan
Autore: Hossein Fayaz Torshizi;
Editore: Hossein Fayaz Torshizi
Formato EPUB con Digital watermarking
ISBN: 9788890928628