An American Bride in Kabul Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Phyllis Chesler
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
106

An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler Book Summary

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to traditional and tribal customs. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no chance of escape. She fought against her seclusion and lack of freedom, her Afghan family's attempts to convert her from Judaism to Islam, and her husband's wish to permanently tie her to the country through childbirth. Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid—and her longing to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and culture. Chesler nearly died there but she managed to get out, returned to her studies in America, and became an author and an ardent activist for women's rights throughout the world. An American Bride in Kabul is the story of how a naïve American girl learned to see the world through eastern as well as western eyes and came to appreciate Enlightenment values. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, a place that is no more, and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform.

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Book Name An American Bride in Kabul
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.18 MB

An American Bride in Kabul (Phyllis Chesler) Book Reviews 2024

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Good but unorganized. What the author had to say was good, but the organization of the book seems as though a kindergartener did it. The premise of the book is the author’s life in Afghanistan, but the majority of it is Afghanistan’s history and her fight for women. All great topics but should have been written in several different novellas. The timeline jumped all over the place but not in a good way to tell the story. It jumped from her time in Kabul in the 60’s to random writers and their stories to present day to history and all over in between.

Great story. A great story by an interesting and wonderful woman. Very well balanced, placing blame on no one, just giving the facts and her response to them. Anyone who has ever been in a similar situation of being trapped should feel their heart race when reading this account. A book that actually takes you somewhere and teaches you something.

Read another book if you're looking for a story. The author Phyllis Chesler spends more time making references to other books than telling her own story. The account of her time in Afghanistan takes up a small portion of this book, and it is told rather hurriedly. The rest of the book is spent going around and around with arguments and counter arguments as to the problems the world faces due to radical Islamists. She offers no concrete solution and places no unilateral blame. The only thing I took away from this book was do your research first...find out about your boyfriends culture before you marry, learn about a country before you invade it, and read more reviews before you buy a book.

An American Bride in Kabul. This is a fascinating memoir and warning. She jumps around a bit and is somewhat repetitious, but it is powerful and we'll worth reading. Tremendous insight!

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Summary of An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler

The An American Bride in Kabul book written by Phyllis Chesler was published on 01 October 2013, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 106 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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