The Favored Daughter by Fawzia Koofi & Nadene Ghouri

The Favored Daughter (First Edition in Original Dust Jacket)

An Afghan Woman Politician's Memoir of Courage, Family and the Fight for Women's Rights, Framed as Letters to Her Daughters

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
• Authors: Fawzia Koofi & Nadene Ghouri
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• ISBN-13: 9780230120679
• Edition Details: First Edition.
• Binding: Publisher's black cloth boards with a printed black and green dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo, vi + 266 pages. Includes a section of photographic illustrations.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: The black cloth boards are clean and square, with a couple of tiny pale specks near the fore-edge and slight bumping at the lower corner. The spine reads cleanly.
• Interior: The text block is tight and clean. The page edges are toned to cream and yellow, with slight general toning only. The text is clean, with no foxing or markings.
• The Dust Jacket: Present, with wear along the top and bottom edges of the spine and edges, small chips and nicks, and whitening at the head. The spine ends are slightly rubbed. A partly scuffed price/ISBN sticker with residue sits at the lower right of the back panel. The jacket is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Published in New York by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012, The Favored Daughter is the memoir of Fawzia Koofi, written with Nadene Ghouri. It follows her life from childhood in rural Afghanistan, through the years of Taliban rule, to her career in politics.

The book is structured partly as letters to her two young daughters. This gives an intimate, personal register to a story of marriage, motherhood, loss and perseverance, set against a country caught between hope for progress and the weight of its history.

Koofi's account offers an inside view of the making of an Afghan woman leader in the face of repression, and records a significant moment in the recent history of Afghanistan and the struggle for women's rights. It is a collectible copy of a widely read modern political memoir, in first edition.

Author Profile: Fawzia Koofi

Fawzia Koofi was born in 1975 in the Kof Ab district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, into a political family. She holds a bachelor's degree in law and political science from Kabul University and a master's degree in international relations and human rights from the University of Diplomacy in Geneva. She worked for UNICEF as a child protection officer before being elected to Parliament, where she served as Afghanistan's first female deputy speaker.

She has been named an Emerging World Leader by the World Economic Forum and was recognised by the Atlantic Council among its 50 Women with Bold Thought. Her other books include Letters to My Daughters. The Favored Daughter was written with Nadene Ghouri.

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