My Sunny Maad

Kaboul, Afghanistan, 2001. Herra, a young woman of Czech origin, decides to give everything up for love, to follow in the footsteps of the man who will become her husband, Nazir. She then witnesses and joins in the upheavals that her new Afghan family live from day to day. Through the eyes of a European woman, against a background of cultural and generational differences, she sees at the same time her daily life thrown upside down by the arrival of Maad, an out-of-the-ordinary orphan, who will become her son.

“In my opinion, Petra Procházková’s novel is an extraordinary, deeply humane document, in which the author, inspired by her own story, has succeeded in transposing, with a point of view suffused with incredible empathy, the efforts of Afghan women to live a free life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. I condemn, as does Petra, the violence inflicted on women hidden behind the walls of their homes, as well as all violations of their rights. This initial situation of Afghan women, described in the novel, makes me uneasy, as a European woman, and seems unacceptable and reprehensible.” Petra Procházková