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Taliban shooting survivor speaks in 'I Am Malala'

London:  A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan, thinking about calculus and chemistry, Justin Bieber songs and “Twilight” movies.Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist

India TV News Desk Updated on: October 08, 2013 20:27 IST


The book, written with the British journalist Christina Lamb, recounts Malala's life before and after the moment on Oct. 9, 2012, when a gunman boarded a school bus full of girls in Pakistan's Swat Valley and asked “Who is Malala?” Then he shot her in the head.

The shooting is described briefly but vividly in the book, which is briskly written but full of arresting detail.

“The air smelt of diesel, bread and kebab mixed with the stink from the stream where people still dumped their rubbish,” Malala remembers.

One of her friends tells her later that the gunman's hand shook as he fired.

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