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The vivid, often startling memoir of a woman shaped by two drastically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of the Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears presided over for nine century within sight of the minarets and lush gardens of Kabul and the snow-topped mountains of the Hindu Kush. Part sophisticated, sensitive Western liberal, part fearless, passionate Afghan, falling deeply in love with her ancestral myth–chasing Afghanistan–Shah becomes, at twenty-one, a correspondent at the front end of the war between your Soviets and the Afghan resistance. Then, imprisoning herself in a burqa, she risks her life to film Beneath the Veil, her acclaimed record of the devastation of women’s lives by the Taliban. Discovering her extended family, discovering an environment of extreme family ritual, of community, of male primacy, of arranged marriages, and finding at last the now war-ravaged family seat, she discovers as well what she wants and what she rejects of her extraordinary heritage.
