by Deborah Rodriguez · Sphere · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780751555769
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«The Kabul Beauty School» is the autobiography and memoir of Deborah Rodriguez about her beauty school in Kabul, published by Sphere in paperback (352 pages, in English).
After the fall of the Taliban regime, American hairdresser Deborah Rodriguez arrives in Afghanistan as a volunteer and ends up founding a beauty academy in Kabul. There, while teaching her students hairdressing and makeup, she learns the stories of women like Mina, forced to marry to pay off a family debt, or Roshanna, a bride terrified of not being a virgin. The school becomes a refuge where these women find independence and friendship in a war-torn country.
The book is an autobiographical memoir set in Afghanistan and originally published in 2007. The 2014 Sphere edition, in English, has 352 pages in paperback.
Recommended for readers interested in travel memoirs, true stories about women in Afghanistan, and humanitarian work after conflicts.
Deborah "Debbie" Rodriguez is an American writer, hairdresser, and humanitarian. She is noted for creating safe spaces that provide women with a way out of domestic violence and chaotic circumstances.
