Under An Afghan Sky

By Mellissa Fung

Book Overview

#1 National Bestseller and Finalist for the OLA Evergreen Award In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC's The National , was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung's days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554686814
• ISBN13: 9781554686810
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"