A fabulous true and romantic story of a young French woman who left for Afghanistan in the late 1920s. Through the fate of a modern-day heroine, the story of a country that oppresses women unfolds.
A wildly romantic book about a real-life feminist heroine: Elisabeth Naïm Khan, a Breton secretary who left in 1928 to follow an Afghan prince to Kabul. The fairy tale turns into a nightmare when, after a long journey, they arrive in a city devastated by civil war.
One day, the narrator inherits Elisabeth’s archives through her grandson and decides to use this precious material to delve into forty little-known years of Afghanistan’s history—between openness and repression—during which Elisabeth becomes a pioneer of women’s emancipation, working for women’s education and opening the first beauty salon in Kabul in the late 1940s.
A modern-day heroine whose path crosses that of Joseph Kessel, author of The Horsemen.
