The Pearl Whose Conch Was Broken 148005

A simple Afghani family, a father, a mother, and five daughters, and between the father’s feeling of shame because he only had females and the mother’s feeling of guilt because she did not give birth to a male child, the solution is the “bush bush”, which Afghan families have resorted to since ancient times: for one of the girls to turn into a male ; She cuts her hair, wears men's clothes, acts like them, and goes out to work and provide for the family. Thus, Rahima turns into Rahim, to discover a world different from her own, and to enjoy privileges that she or any other woman did not dream of obtaining. Rahima was not the first girl in the family to enter the world of bash bush, her grandmother Shakiba preceded her, and between the story of the grandmother who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the granddaughter who lives in the beginning of the twenty-first century, we enter the world of Afghan women and bash bush girls.