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Authors: Deborah Rodriguez
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Deborah Rodriguez is the author of the international bestseller
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
. She has also written two memoirs:
The Kabul Beauty School,
about her life in Afghanistan, and
The House on Carnaval Street
, on her experiences following her return to America. She spent five years teaching and later directing the Kabul Beauty School, the first modern beauty academy and training salon in Afghanistan.
Deborah also owned the Oasis Salon and the Cabul Coffee House, and is the founder of the nonprofit organization Oasis Rescue, which aims to teach economically disadvantaged women, and women in post-conflict and disaster-stricken areas, the art of hairdressing.
She currently lives in Mazatlán, Mexico, where she owns the Tippy Toes salon and spa.
FICTION
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
NON-FICTION
The Kabul Beauty School
The House on Carnaval Street
Go back to where it all began â¦
THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL
Deborah Rodriguez
One little café. Five extraordinary women â¦
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
Sunny
, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan â and fast â to keep her café and customers safe â¦
Yazmina
, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets â¦
Candace
, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil â¦
Isabel
, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life â¦
And
Halajan
, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules.
As these five discover there's more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will forever change their lives and the lives of many others.
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âThe idea behind this book was a beautiful one, and I can say without a doubt that the sheer genius of the idea has come across to the reader through the pages. To write about a warzone, to humanise it for one's readers, give it life and an identity beyond bloodshed is a feat that deserves more appreciation than I could ever articulate into sentences.'
The Guardian
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Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
ePub ISBN â 9780857988331
First published by Bantam in 2016
Copyright © Deborah Rodriguez 2016
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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Rodriguez, Deborah, author
Return to the little coffee shop of Kabul/Deborah Rodriguez
ISBN 978 0 85798 833 1 (ebook: epub)
Women â Afghanistan â Kabul â Fiction
Interpersonal relations â Fiction
Kabul (Afghanistan) â Fiction
813.6
Cover illustration by Cheryl Orsini
Cover design by Christabella Designs
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.