In this intimate and extraordinary memoir Ziauddin Yousafzai the father of Malala gives a
moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality - proving there are many faces
of feminism.Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is I have often used the
phrase. 'Ask me not what I did but what I did not do. I did not clip her wings'For over twenty
years Ziauddin Yousafzai has been fighting for equality - first for Malala his daughter - and
then for all girls throughout the world living in patriarchal societies. Taught as a young boy
in Pakistan to believe that he was inherently better than his sisters Ziauddin rebelled
against inequality at a young age. And when he had a daughter himself he vowed that Malala
would have an education something usually only given to boys and he founded a school that
Malala could attend.Then in 2012 Malala was shot for standing up to the Taliban by continuing
to go to her father's school and Ziauddin almost lost the very person for whom his fight for
equality began. Let Her Fly is Ziauddin's journey from a stammering boy growing up in a tiny
village high in the mountains of Pakistan through to being an activist for equality and the
father of the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and now one of the most
influential and inspiring young women on the planet.Told through intimate portraits of each of
Ziauddin's closest relationships - as a son to a traditional father as a father to Malala and
her brothers educated and growing up in the West as a husband to a wife finally learning to
read and write as a brother to five sisters still living in the patriarchy - Let Her Fly looks
at what it means to love to have courage and fight for what is inherently right. Personal in
its detail and universal in its themes this landmark book shows why we must all keep fighting
for the rights of girls and women everywhere.
