The Storyteller's Daughter

British-born Saira Shah returned to Afghanistan to find out what it's like to be an Afghan woman trying to straddle the divide between Western and Eastern culture, religion, politics and tradition. She offers the reader a very personal account of her heritage.

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Saira Shah's family left Afghanistan in the sixties to settle in Britain. They were cosmopolitan - with branches all over the world. Her father had himself travelled widely throughout most of the Middle East and Central Asia. Throughout her childhood he captivated her with his many stories about Afghanistan and its people. It became a wonderful, mysterious and romantic place in Saira's imagination. Here she chronicles a journey of discovery.