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Novel I published in Swedish 2015

As I’m sure you’ll agree, in these times of international strife and religious intolerance, it’s important to share insights into the lives of the real people behind the stereotypes.

My story, published in Swedish as a fictionalized autobiography, has already touched many readers. As an impressionable 17‐year‐old girl in the early 1970s, I fell in love with and married a Pashtun man in northern Pakistan. My book, An Unlikely Rebellion, depicts my years living with him and his family in the beautiful and remote Swat Valley, a decade before the rise of the Taliban.

It is a story that in many ways confirms Western perceptions of this strict patriarchal culture, but it also shatters just as many stereotypes, as it portrays the great love and respect with which I was treated by my in‐laws. Although ultimately neither of us could adapt to living in the other’s culture, the overall message of the book is positive, and the response from my readers has nothing but positive. Several have also commented, “This sounds like a movie!”