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Under an Afghan sky : a memoir of captivity
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- ISBN: 9781443408264 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1443408263 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Canada, 2011.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, February 3, 2014). |
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| Subject: | Fung, Mellissa -- Captivity, 2008 Hostages -- Afghanistan -- Biography Hostages -- Canada -- Biography Journalists -- Canada -- Biography Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narratives, Canadian |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC's The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung's days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.
