Under an Afghan Sky: a Memoir of Captivity
Mellissa Fung, "Under an Afghan Sky: a Memoir of Captivity"
ISBN: 1554686806 | 2011 | EPUB/MOBI | 230 pages | 2 MB/839 KB
In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a reporter for CBC's The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul when she was kidnapped by armed men. She was forced to hike for several hours through the mountains until they reached a village; there, the kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. "No," she said. "I am not going down there." For more than a month, Fung lived in that hole, which was barely tall enough to stand up in, nursing her injuries, praying and writing in a notebook. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung's days in captivity, surviving on cookies and juice, from the 'grab' to her eventual release.