I Am Malala

　　When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

　　On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

　　Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.

　　I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

　　I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.

作者簡介

　　Malala was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Her short lifetime has encompassed devastating changes in her country as it has been transformed from a once peaceful land to a hotbed of Islamic extremism. The Taliban have said Malala, who now lives in Birmingham, England, will be killed if she returns home. But she says she has been given a second life that she intends to use for the good of the people and her dream that all girls everywhere deserve an education.

　　Co-author Christina Lamb is one of Britain's leading foreign correspondents and knows Pakistan intimately. She lived in Peshawar for two years and has reported from Pakistan for 26 years. She has followed al Qaeda since its beginnings and was the only journalist on Benazir Bhutto's bus in 2007 when it was bombed. She has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times and was awarded the Prix Bayeux, Europe's most prestigious award for war reporting. She recently returned to London from Washington where she spent three years as US editor of the Sunday Times of London. She is the author of five books including the bestselling The Africa House; Waiting for Allah, Pakistan's struggle for democracy; and The Sewing Circles of Herat which was runner up in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers award. The mother of a 13 year old, she cares passionately about education and is a patron of Afghan Connection which sets up schools in Afghanistan and is on the board of Institute of War and Peace Reporting.