A Woman Like Her

The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The powerful story of a woman who was ahead of her time' Mishal Husain, presenter at BBC World News, BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Six, Radio 4 'Terrific and necessary' Sonia Faleiro 'This book is brilliant and terrifying' Meena Kandasamy _________________________ A beautiful woman in winged eyeliner and a low-cut top lies on a bed urging her favourite cricketer to win the next match. In another post, she pouts at the camera from a hot tub. She posts a selfie with a cleric, wearing his cap at a jaunty angle. Her posts are viewed millions of times and the comments beneath them are full of hate. As her notoriety grows, the comments made about her on national talk shows are just as vitriolic. They call her Pakistan's Kim Kardashian, they say she'll do anything for attention. When she's murdered, they're transfixed by the footage of her body. Drawing on interviews and in-depth research, Sanam Maher pieces together Qandeel's life from the village where she grew up in the backwaters of rural Pakistan, to her stint in a women's shelter after escaping her marriage, to her incarnation as a social media sensation and the Muslim world's most unlikely feminist icon.
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Schrijver
Maher, Sanam
Titel
A Woman Like Her
Uitgever
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Jaar
2020
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
336
Gewicht
223 gr
EAN
9781526607607
Afmetingen
195 x 127 x 24 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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