The Kabul Beauty School

All women is mostly the same, not only in a safe area, but also in a war zone like Afghanistan, we love beauty salon. We need make up, new hair cut, medicure, pedicure and all other enjoyable treatment.

This book is hilarious. It is a memoir of Deborah Rodriguez, an American volunteer who went to Afghanistan, got married to a Mujahidin man, and opened her first Kabul Beauty School. Her objective is to help Afghan women in supporting their family needs.

I really enjoy reading this book. I couldn't stop laughing and also felt touched. The memoir is written down in a simple way. Laughs and tears come side by side.

This book will be soon adapted into movie.

After reading "Kite Runner", "A Thousand Splendid Sun" (Khaled Hosseini), "Three Cups of Tea" (Greg Mortenson) and this book, I feel closer to Afgahnistan *sok akrab*. Got a lot of info and description about the place, the people and I found it all really fascinating. Who knows I could go there someday. Drinking their cups of tea, meet their hospitality and trying their beauty salon. Who knows.

This book already translated in Bahasa Indonesia by Penerbit Bentang, and the translation is also good.