The Kabul Beauty School. The Art of Friendship and Freedom

London England: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. Hardback. First Edition. The author arrived in Afghanistan in 2002 with nothing but a desire to help and a beauty degree. When she arrived she learned that the once-proud tradition of Afghan beauty salons had been all but destroyed by the Taliban. With her knowledge of both beauty and enterprise, Rodriguez opened the first salon in Kabul that actually trained local women to becomebeauticians - one of the few ways in which a woman could support herself and her family. And it is here that she not only empowered her students with a new sense of autonomy - in this strictly patriarchal culture the beauty school proved a small haven - but also made some of the closes friends in her lofe. In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, woven through the book are stories of the students, for example, the twelve-year-old engaged to be married to save her family's reputation, or the newlywed who must fake her own virginity....All of these women have a story to tell, and all of them bring their stories to the Kabul Beauty School, where along with Rodriguez herself, they learn the art of perms, friendship and freedom. Illustrated. 275 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.