A Memoir Of Captivity
Pub 2011
Author: Mellissa Fung
Medium Hardcover With Dust Cover
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Just Has A Name Label On 1st Page
"When I reached Mellissa Fung by telephone in Kabul, shortly after her release, we spoke at great length, like two sisters, the account she has written about the 28 days of captivity is striking, because it gives us the full measure of her strenth, which was put to the test, and her humanity." -- Michaelle Jean
In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time journalist for CBC's The National, was reporting on the effects of the war in Afghanistan on the local population. As she was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. Fung was then forced to hike for several hours through the mountains, bleeding profusely from her wounds. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. "No," she said "I am not going down there."
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, during which she survived mainly on cookies and juice, and it details her ordeal from the "grab" to her eventual release. It is a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.
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