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. 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. Veronica was not a casual traveler
but a young musician married to a scholar. 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. 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.
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 followed by Civil
War and the rise of the Taliban. Veronica was separated from her
friends: feared the worst, sought to assist but was also aware that
contact from a westerner could be lethal to them. Then a fragile
peace allowed her to meet them again and pick up their stories. It
is a most exceptional work, which reads like a novel.
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