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An American diplomat is forced to confront the devastation of her former when she is designated to remote North Afghanistan. In 1983 junior diplomat and outstanding linguist Angela Morgan witnessed the death of her young spouse through the bombing of the US embassy in Beirut. Devastated by her loss, she fled back to Washington, DC, and hid in the backwaters of the US State Department. With the exception of a two-year tour of responsibility in the ex - Soviet Union in the later '80s, she monitored for almost two decades to avoid high-profile postings that would advance her job. Now, your career about to dead end and no true connections at home, she must take the main one task available - at a distant British military outpost in North Afghanistan. Unwelcome among the military and unaccepted by the local authorities and warlords, Angela must struggle to earn the admiration of her fellow workers, especially the enigmatic Symbol Davies, a United kingdom major who is by becomes her staunchest ally and her fiercest critic. Frustrated at her lack of ability to contribute to the country's reconstruction, Angela slips out of camp disguised in a burka to provide help to the refugees in the war-torn region. She becomes their farishta ("angel" in the local Dari words), discovers a new purpose on her behalf life, and finds a way to finally put her grief behind her. Drawing on the author's own experiences as a diplomat in North Afghanistan, Farishta is a deeply moving and fast-paced history of a female struggling to go beyond a previous trauma who finds a new community, a new love, and a new sense of self along the way.
