Bibish
Auteur van The Dancer from Khiva
Werken van Bibish
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1964
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Uzbekistan
Russia - Land (voor op de kaart)
- Uzbekistan
- Geboorteplaats
- Khiva, Uzbekistan
- Woonplaatsen
- Uzbekistan
Moscow, Russia - Beroepen
- dancer
street trader
dance instructor
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- Populariteit
- #413,653
- Waardering
- 2.9
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 3
This review is from: The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman's Quest for Freedom (Paperback)
Probably around a *2.5 for this autobiographical account of an Uzbek woman and her hard life (published 2004.)
Bibish describes her early life in a village near Khiva - her successful school career and her flair for dancing, but also her poor home,widespread disapproval of her dancing and two sexual assaults which she couldn't talk of .
We follow her 'escape' to Russia, her marriage and children and the awful difficulties of getting somewhere to live and to make a living as a market trader. As another reviewer observed, there isn't too much dancing, and as for her Islamic religion, Bibish never mentions it except in the constraints it put on her young life - does she abandon it completely later?
Actually Russia sounded so grim that I kept on wondering why she didn't go back home.
Certainly a harsh life, but not particularly gripping writing.… (meer)