Songs of blood and sword :a daughter's memoir by Fatima Bhutto

[Jenni Wong]

    Fatima Bhutto delivered the opening address to the Sydney Writers Festival 2011.  

   An ambitious, fascinating and brave account in violent and turbulent times in modern eastern political historystarting with the author's own family (a political and destructive family) and the history of Pakistan Mir Murtaza Bhutto.The beginning gives a personal feel rather than political which catches the reader unaware and leads to the assasination of her father, Mir Murtaza Bhutto.

   It is a touching betrayal of loss and what it means to lose the person you looked to most for your identity. A restrictive and selective lens and omission of her father's darker politics.

[Lindach]

This is on my 'to read' list and it is interesting to note your comment about the omissions regading the daker side of her family's politics. I will still read it though!