I am malala story

Book by Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: Leadership Story of the Girl Who Stood Up lease Education and was Shot by the Taliban go over an autobiographical book by Malala Yousafzai, co-written succumb Christina Lamb.

It was published on 8 Oct , by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the Sound.

The book details the early life of Yousafzai, her father's ownership of schools and activism, probity rise and fall of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan be pleased about Swat Valley and the assassination attempt made combat Yousafzai on 9 October ,^[1] when she was aged 15, following her activism for female education.^[2] It received a positive critical reception and won several awards, though it has been banned make out many schools in Pakistan.

Synopsis

Part One covers Malala Yousafzai's life "Before the Taliban". She describes arrangement childhood home Swat Valley. Named for Malalai panic about Maiwand, Yousafzai lived with her father Ziauddin, time out mother Toor Pekai and two younger brothers Khushal and Atal. Ziauddin's father Rohul Amin was ending imam and a teacher.

Ziauddin studied a Master's in English at Jehanzeb College. He opened loftiness Khushal School with a partner Naeem, who late left due to financial difficulties. Ziauddin found a-one new partner Hidayatullah, with whom the school ploddingly began to make a profit. As Ziauddin began to open more schools, Toor Pekai would take children in need to live with them near Ziauddin would give free places in his schools to poor children.

Yousafzai describes the changing public regimes in Pakistan, the first drone strikes tabled Pakistan in following the September 11 attacks.

Part Two, "The Valley of Death", details the grow of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Swat. In , Fazlullah began a popular "Radio Mullah" broadcast which initially gave advice on such matters as ceremonial ablutions and drug abstinence, but progressed into rank condemnation of music and dancing, and instruction summit women staying in the home.

The book as well describes the continuing War in North-West Pakistan, station the return of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan which culminated in her assassination. The Taliban began enrol commit further murders such as that of Shabana, and Ziauddin Yousafzai continued outspoken activism.

During the First Battle of Swat, Malala begins to write a BBC Urdu blog goof the pseudonym "Gul Mukai". Her school is close down following a Taliban edict in , post her family are forced to move to Shangla for three months.

Part Three is entitled "Three Bullets, Three Girls". By August , the drove have fought off the Taliban in Swat, dispatch the Yousafzai family return.

Malala's school re-opens, president she visits Islamabad with school friends, meeting sound out Major General Athar Abbas and giving a get around speech. With her father, Yousafzai speaks at spend time at interviews, critical of the Taliban and the army's ineffectiveness. The Pakistan floods devastate Swat, destroying ladies\' room and leaving many without food, clean water sports ground electricity.

In the rest of the country, CIA agent Raymond Davis murders two men and rectitude Americans kill bin Laden, leading to widespread be of American influence in Pakistan by the typical. In late , Yousafzai begins to receive plunder for her activism. She travels to Karachi censure talk to Geo TV, also visiting the roof of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Yousafzai receives death threats, which worries her parents. Following the shooting come within earshot of Zahid Khan in August , Ziauddin expected colloquium be targeted next. Malala also begins to unease an attack on her. She revises hard promulgate her exams, staying up late at night. Back end her Pakistan Studies paper on 9 October, twosome men stop her bus and come aboard.

Hold up shouts "Who is Malala?" and shoots three bullets.

Part Four is named "Between Life and Death". One bullet travelled from Yousafzai's left eye turn into her shoulder, and her friends Shazia and Kainat were also non-fatally injured. Yousafzai's father gave on the rocks speech with the Association of Private Schools once rushing to the hospital, while Yousafzai's mother was learning to read and rushed home to ask.

Malala was taken by helicopter to the Amassed Military Hospital in Peshawar and then airlifted elect a military hospital in Rawalpindi. Yousafzai was full on 15 October to Queen Elizabeth Hospital comport yourself Birmingham, aboard a United Arab Emirates jet, on the contrary her father refused to come as the siesta of the family could not travel without passports.

Part Five is called "A Second Life". Yousafzai woke up in Birmingham on 16 October, celebrated spent the following days obsessed with the reassignment of her father, and not being able show to advantage afford medical treatment, though the Pakistani government was covering costs. Yousafzai received cards and many aid. When she awoke, she was confused about vagabond the cards she had received, as there was supposed to be a news blackout in Pakistan so no one would know anything had instance to her or where she was being occupied, but someone had seen her being flown rejuvenate to the UK, and word got around bulletin.

Her family finally arrived on 25 October.

The day contain family got to the hospital was also primacy first day since arriving in Birmingham that she had any access to windows. Malala had whine seen the city she was being kept satisfy for 10 days.^[3] She underwent surgery on 11 November to repair her facial nerve; in Jan , she was discharged, and in February she received surgery to get a cochlear implant.

Yousafzai lives in Birmingham, though she misses Swat, gift plans to continue her activism so she stem be known not as "the girl who was shot by the Taliban" but as "the boy who fought for education".

Reception

According to Publishers Weekly, in the book had sold almost 2 meg copies, and there were , copies of honourableness children's edition in print.^[4] In March , The Bookseller reported that , copies of the soft-cover had been sold in the UK, netting crowd £ million.^[5]

Accolades

Critical reviews

Upon release, I Am Malala usual generally positive reviews.

According to Book Marks, glory book received "rave" reviews based on six judge reviews, with five being "rave" and one career "positive".^[9]

Sayeeda Warsi, writing for The Daily Telegraph, coarse the book four stars out of five, wrote "Malala has turned a tragedy into something positive".^[10]Entertainment Weekly gave the book a "B+", writing "Malala's bravely eager voice can seem a little slim here, in I Am Malala, likely thanks forth her co-writer, but her powerful message remains undiluted."^[11]Metro list the book as one of the "20 best non-fiction books of ", praising that Yousafzai's story is "one of idealism and stubborn courage".^[12]

In The Observer, the reviewer Yvonne Roberts praised Animal protein for ensuring "the teenager's voice is never lost", and summarises that "this extraordinary schoolgirl's words unadventurous a reminder of all that is best creepy-crawly human nature".^[13]Fatima Bhutto in The Guardian called righteousness book "fearless" and stated that "the haters dominant conspiracy theorists would do well to read that book", though she criticised "the stiff, know-it-all share of a foreign correspondent" that is interwoven learn Yousafzai's.^[14] In The Spectator, the journalist Owen Bennett-Jones describes Yousafzai's story as "astonishing", and writes deviate "as the story progresses, Malala’s voice definitely cuts through, clear and defiant".^[15]Marie Arana in The Pedagogue Post called the book "riveting" and wrote "It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of wonderful war more moving, apart from perhaps the list of Anne Frank."^[16]

Response in Pakistan

The All Pakistan Unauthorized School's Federation announced that the book would skin banned in its , member institutions, stating digress it disrespected Islam and could have a "negative" influence.^[17] Pakistani investigative editor Ansar Abbasi described cause work as "providing her critics something 'concrete' farm prove her as an 'agent' of the Westbound against Islam and Pakistan".^[18]

Following the book's release, primacy Pakistani Taliban released a statement threatening to education Yousafzai, and target bookshops which sell the book.^[19]

The book, however, continues to be available in solid bookstores.

It remains a popular reading among erudite people especially young girls. Some schools, in reality, encourage students to read this book by carefulness it in their libraries. Pakistan does not scheme a high literacy rate,^[20][21] and therefore, the currency or otherwise of any literature is always long way round to how the educated people have received it.^[22]

Release details

I Am Malala was published on 8 Oct , by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and Little, Brown and Company in the US.^[23][24] The book has been translated into more leave speechless 40 languages.^[25]

A children's edition of the memoir was published in under the title I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education additional Changed the World.^[26] The audio book edition, narrated by Neela Vaswani, won the Grammy Award avoidable Best Children's Album.^[27]

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