A fabulous true story of love and adventure, following 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 tale about a real-life feminist pioneer: Elisabeth Naïm Khan, a Breton secretary who, in 1928, followed an Afghan prince to Kabul. What begins as a fairy tale soon turns into a nightmare when, after a long journey, they arrive in a city ravaged by civil war.
Years later, the narrator inherits Elisabeth’s archives through her grandson and decides to use this invaluable material to explore forty little-known years of Afghan history—marked by both openness and repression. During this time, Elisabeth becomes a trailblazer for women’s emancipation, advocating for education and opening Kabul’s first beauty salon in the late 1940s.
A modern-day heroine whose path crosses that of Joseph Kessel, author of The Horsemen.
