WORLDS APART: A MUSLIM GIRL WITH THE SAS
Book ID/图书代码： 03640915B81853
English Summary/英文概要： By the age of twelve, Azi Ahmed had been fully trained in all the skills her mother thought necessary to become the perfect housewife: knitting, sewing and sitting pretty. Little did she know that a rather different sort of training lay in her future.
With no military experience, physically slight and, before entering Chelsea Barracks, socially isolated, Azi suddenly finds herself in selection training with eleven other girls and 200 men, all hoping to become part of the British Army’s most elite fighting force the SAS. She soon realises the physical challenge is the least of her worries.
Deep-rooted ethnic and gender prejudices abound and Azi is faced with trying to defend her religion and culture within a regimented and hostile environment, a situation that is not helped by the events of 9/11. While Azi deals with non-halal ration packs, squaddie drinking culture and the most rigorous tests of mental and physical strength, her parents, completely unaware of her double life, are still trying to find her a suitable boy to marry. With the two most important institutions in her life at loggerheads, Azi is forced to choose but will either be enough?
Worlds Apart is the incredible true story of the most violent of culture clashes, of one woman’s fight not only to be ’the best of the best’, but to remain true to herself in the process.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 12岁的时候，Azi Ahmed已经被母亲训练成为了完美的家庭主妇。她并不知道，一种截然不同的训练正在未来等待着她。
没有任何军事经验、体格单薄、几乎与世隔绝的她要和其他11个女孩和200个男孩共同竞争加入英国军队最精英的部队——SAS（英国空军特别部队）。
Azi必须在一个种族、性别歧视根深蒂固的环境中捍卫自己的宗教和文化。而这种歧视的局面在9/11之后愈演愈烈。正当她在努力挣扎时，完全不知情的父母还在为她物色完美丈夫。随着两方的竞争越来越激烈，她不得不进行艰难的抉择……
《天壤之别》无比真实地呈现出最激烈的文化冲突。Azi的抗争不仅仅为了成为“精英中的精英”，更是一个忠于自我的过程。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Azi Ahmed在曼彻斯特一个关系密切的穆斯林社区出生并长大。进入伦敦的中央圣马丁后，她离开家人踏上了崭新的职业道路，并最终开办了自己的互联网营销公司。
退伍后，Azi继续为国防部工作。闲暇时间，她担任一所特殊学校和一个无家可归者慈善组织的主管。
2015年的全民选举中，她被推选为罗奇代尔的保守党议员候选人，并寻求将其人生经历运用到政治生涯中去。她现在居住在伦敦。
Azi Ahmed was born and raised within a close-knit Muslim community in Manchester. Upon her acceptance to Central Saint Martins in London, she moved away from her family and embarked on a career that would eventually see her running her own internet marketing company.
After leaving the army, Azi went on to work for the Ministry of Defence on campaigns for British soldiers in Afghanistan and in her spare time volunteers as a governor at a special needs’ school and at a charity organisation for the homeless.
She was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Rochdale in the 2015 general election and seeks to apply her life experiences to a career in politics. She lives in London.
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