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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

by Maria Toorpakai

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First published: 2016
Pages: 300

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Maria Toorpakai

South Waziristan, in the tribal belt of north-west Pakistan, allowed girls no part in sport when Toorpakai was small. Her father, unusually for the district, agreed to let her live outwardly as a boy so that she could compete, and she did so for years, first at weightlifting and then at squash.

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Author: Maria Toorpakai
First published: 2016
Reading time: About 9 hours
Pages: 300
Language: English
Genres: Autobiography, Biography, History, Memoir, Non-Fiction
Formats: PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online