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If you haven’t read the inspirational I am Malala , now is the time. This heart-warming and informative autobiography is co-written by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb while she resides in the UK. Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel laureate (receiving it at 17) and a female education activist fights for her basic right to education amid Taliban’s dominance in her home Swat Valley, Pakistan. At 15 she was shot on her way back from school — a fatal shot that she miraculously survived. She was taken by helicopter to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, London and given asylum. Her autobiography reveals her pro-female education father “ Ziauddin ” , a school owner and activist, who encouraged his daughter to go to school and learn how to read and write in a male dominated society, despite several assassination attempts. The book matters as it reveals snapshots of life in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, through images of her home, school, members of her family, and Yousafzai in action before the near-fatal shot. The book also sheds light on life in Pakistan, the rituals of Pashtuns and the political regime.

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