From Vysočina to Pakistani Peshawar

Imagine that you and your husband have just moved into a new house and are expecting the arrival of your first child any day now. While still in the maternity hospital, you receive a special gift from your husband — a plane ticket to Peshawar, Pakistan — and at the same time you learn from him that he has won a place there in a project aimed at preventing natural disasters. Suddenly you are faced with the vision of two years spent in a country that you might still be able to find on a map, but what little you know about it could be summed up in two sentences.

How does a new mother react to a new environment and unfamiliar culture? What does the loss of freedom and a sense of security in an unknown world mean to her? How does he cope with the fear of bombings and impending kidnappings?

In memories interspersed with diary entries, the author captures her often hard-to-believe experiences against the background of what really happened in Pakistan in 2007 and 2008. Let yourself be absorbed by a lively narrative about a country with a rich cultural tradition and its somewhat peculiar inhabitants.