Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisIn 1980s Afghanistan, the land where local legend says Cain fled after killing Abel, American journalist Elizabeth Owen becomes one of the first female correspondents to journey into the forbidden warzone of the Afghan-Soviet conflict, where brother fights brother and son bitterly opposes father. Elizabeth's instinctive sisterhood with Afghan women and her growing feelings for Dr. Yusuf, an idealistic American-trained Afghan physician who tends both Mujahedeen fighters and innocent civilians, force Elizabeth into a struggle with her journalistic objectivity as she seeks the truth about love and war on the battlefield of her own heart., In this compelling story of love, war, idealism and hard moral choices during the brutal Afghan-Soviet conflict of the 1980's, American journalist Elizabeth Owen dares to go where few foreign men and virtually no women have gone before: the forbidden war zone of Afghanistan. Her journalistic objectivity is tested by her growing feelings for Yusuf, an American-trained Afghan doctor working with Mujahedeen freedom fighters and civilians in remote villages. In the land where legend says the Biblical Cain fled after killing Abel, Elizabeth finds sisterhood with Afghan women as she witnesses a wrenching, confusing war where brother fights brother, and son opposes father.