The often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years. She first visited Afghanistan at age 21 and worked as a free-lance journalist. She is the author of BENEATH THE VEIL, her acclaimed record of the devastation of women's lives by the Taliban.