Publisher's Synopsis
Latifa was born in Kabul into an educated middle-class Afghan family, at once liberal and religious. As a teenager she loved fashion, cinema and longed to become a journalist. Her mother, a doctor, and her father, a businessman, encouraged her dreams. In 1996, the Taliban seized power. From that moment, sixteen-year-old Latifa became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, listening to music - were no longer hers. She was now forced to cover herself entirely with a burqa. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes the way her world fell apart in the name of a fanatical interpretation of her faith. Her story goes to the heart of a people caught up in a terrible tragedy in a brutalised country.
