An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

by Phyllis Chesler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230342213
• ISBN13: 9780230342217
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Disappointed

I was very excited to read this book but I was disappointed with it. For the first half of the book I could not put it down. Her story of getting married and moving to the Middle East is heart wrenching and compelling. But the second half of the book, after returning to The United States, became a history lesson of Afghani culture. Each chapter consists of one personal event followed by dozens of literary and historical references. Such things are important! But not what I wanted to read about. I wish the author wrote more about her and her personal experiences rather than other peoples.