Book Description:
A timely new edition of the extraordinary life story of Pakistan's first woman Prime Minister -- now updated to assess recent developments in her country as it assumes a central role in world affairs.
Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 -- Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approaching that of a royal princess, only to be stripped of her power in another example of the bitter political in-fighting that has riven her country. From her upbringing in one of Pakistan's richest families, the shock of the contrast of her Harvard and Oxford education, and subsequent politicisation and arrest after her father's death, Bhutto's life has been full of drama. Her riveting autobiography, first published in 1988 and now updated to cover her own activities since then and how her country has changed since being thrust into the international limelight after 9/11, is an inspiring tale of strength, dedication and courage in the face of adversity.
中文簡介:
《東方的女兒:貝·布托自傳》收錄了其去年4月親筆撰寫的前言:“生于巴基斯坦,我的生命折射了她的動蕩、悲情和勝利?!必悺げ纪幸跃晷愣鴦傄愕奈娘L回憶了自己命運多桀的一生,披露了許多鮮為人知的政治內(nèi)幕,包括父親之死、監(jiān)禁生涯、流亡海外、回國等。這不僅是一位杰出女性的人生獨白,而且是一部充滿愛、苦難、斗爭和英雄主義的傳奇。本書一直描述到2007年10月18日她結(jié)束8年流亡回到巴基斯坦,而這本自傳結(jié)束兩個多月之后,貝·布托便遇刺身亡。
About Author:
貝娜齊爾·布托(簡譯貝·布托),1953年生于巴基斯坦南部港口城市卡拉奇,是巴基斯坦已故前總理阿里·布托的長女。她曾兩度出任巴基斯坦總理,是伊斯蘭世界的第一位女總理,被稱為“鐵蝴蝶”。其一生經(jīng)歷坎坷,曾被政敵軟禁,后曾因腐敗問題流亡國外。2007年10月18日,貝·布托返回巴基斯坦。同年12月27日,在參加競選活動時被炸后身亡。
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