I'd rather be blind : my life after Afghanistan

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Label

I'd rather be blind : my life after Afghanistan

Title remainder

my life after Afghanistan

Statement of responsibility

Grant Lock

Title variation

I would rather be blind

Creator

• Lock, Grant

Author

• Lock, Grant

Subject

• Australian
• Community development personnel -- Australia -- Biography
• Cultural awareness
• Lock, Grant
• Lock, Grant -- Family
• Afghanistan -- Social conditions
• Pakistan -- Social life and customs
• People with visual disabilities -- Australia -- Biography
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Pakistan -- Social conditions
• Afghanistan -- Social life and customs

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Grant Lock directed Afghanistan's largest eye care program. Until he himself became blind. He returns home to a society with its own blind spots: myopic attitudes to Islam, mental health and what makes us human. After battling corruption, injustice and disadvantage in the deserts, mountains and cities of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Lock confronts challenges-both intimate and global-with courage and compassion. Riveting. To his experience in some of the world's most troubled places, Lock brings a bushman's wit and wisdom

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

361.7092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult