The Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguiz (2007)This is the true story of Deborah Rodriguiz , who first first travels to Kabul, Afghanistan in 2002 to help the women of Kabul. All the local beauty salons had been destroyed by the Taliban - Deborah realises that this is an opportunity to assist the women by training them for jobs and allowing them to earn money to help their families.
Returning later she then sets up a Beauty school and marries a local warlord! Some of the stories of the women are heartbreaking - to put the women who have been raped in jail and to give them sentances longer than the ones given to the men that raped them. Arranged marriage is normal and many brides marry without having met or seen their groom, in many cases teenage girls being married off to much older men.
This book was overdue, but worth the extra $3 to keep it and read this lovely book. 4/5
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