This story is a story of women first. But it is also that of a country that is discovered and that we learn to see with other eyes than those of media that give us a picture of war and brutality. This is what we can also retain the cover: an impression of light and energy, while the women who cross before our eyes are fully veiled. From the birth of Mariam in spring 1959 at the conclusion of the novel in 2003, it is all the troubled history of the Afghanistant that is told us. Place the various warlords, the Western and Soviet, different ideologies opposition within the population ... It is through this story that we approach this martyred population which can not we ever talk : one that suffers violence and the destruction of his country, victim of wars that will lead camps where few seem to recognize and tries to continue a semblance of "normal" existence, which tries to give life in conditions so dramatic.
