Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 Doubleday Veronica
Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 Doubleday Veronica In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home…
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Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 Doubleday Veronica
In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat. Veronica was not a casual traveler but a young musician married to a scholar. This Afghan city sat close to the Persian frontier and was fully cognizant of its glorious history as the capital of a once vast Central Asian Empire.
The tentative story, the growth in these very different friendships, takes the reader into a rare, deep, and privileged insight into the hidden world of Afghan female society. She was determined to make use of her time in Afghanistan and break out of the charmed circle of the expatriate academic and make real friendships with local women. This is more than enough to make this book remarkable, but it has an afterlife of its own.
For a Communist coup, then the Russian invasion, a long guerrilla war of Resistance is