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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

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The introduction and afterword have added more value to this book through which one can get an idea about the current scenario in Afghanistan and also the pain taken by the authors and other people involved with this book to complete the project.

In the process they reiterate how much Afghan women could again say and do, if only they were allowed to. But today girls and women are being deprived of this fundamental right: they are no longer allowed to attend secondary school and higher education, which must be having an impact on primary school enrollment (if it is even allowed in practice and not just rhetoric from an abhorrent “government”). My Pen is the Wing of a Bird is a completely haunting collection of stories by Afghan women, who detail the bleak and harrowing world that they live in, as well as the world that they wish it to be. It was deeply moving to hear about the lengths some of these women have had to go through to share their writing with the world.

The anthology, My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, was published this week by MacLehose Press, but many of the team involved have never met. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

The sacrifices people make for one another and the unbreakable attachment people have to home, no matter what hell that home may host, are repeated notes that echo in the heart. I like a short story format from time to time in my reading and I think the form really suited these dificult stories as over a longer form it might be too much to digest.There were some stories I connected with more than others, unsurprisingly, but there was only one story that I didn't really like or connect to; every other one had a little something that touched and moved me. My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a huge accomplishment” MONIQUE ROFFEY, author of The Mermaid of Black ConchMy Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. The stories that most stood out to me were "The Late Shift" by Sharifa Pasun that talks about how brave a female journalist as she deals with conflicting vocations of motherhood and truth.

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