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Maria Toorpakai

A Different Kind of Daughter

The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight

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WHAT IF YOUR DESTINY WAS ALSO A DEATH SENTENCE?Maria Toorpakai grew up in a violently oppressive tribal region of Pakistan, where girls rarely leave their homes and are forbidden from playing sport. But Maria did, passing as a boy in order to compete.For Maria, playing squash was more than just a game - it was her salvation. But when her gender was revealed, Maria's sporting prowess became a death sentence, thrusting her into the national spotlight and exposing her to the Taliban, who wanted Maria and her family dead. So began Maria's long road to freedom as, alone, she moved halfway across the globe to pursue her dream, ultimately rising to… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Holstein, Katharine
  • ISBN: 978-1-5098-0081-0
  • EAN: 9781509800810
  • Produktnummer: 21816936
  • Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.2 cm 258 g
  • Gewicht: 258
  • Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

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Born in 1990 to a Pashtun family in South Waziristan, a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, Maria is currently ranked fifty-fourth in the world and is Pakistan Number One at squash. The only way Maria could play sport as a girl was to disguise herself as a boy. When her gender was eventually revealed in order for her to train professionally in squash, Maria and her family received death and kidnap threats, as her actions were perceived as 'un-Islamic'. The Pakistani national squash federation provided security for her home and training venue, but Maria decided it was a safer option to seek an opportunity to train internationally. Maria lives and trains in Toronto, Canada, under former professional squash player Jonathon Power.

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