The book shows the life of a young family in a new, struggling country. It is an insight into a different culture, without prejudice, as it has been lived day by day. It also lets you take part in the advancing of living standard of middleclass families in Asia. You learn that there are other ways of life that can lead you to success and happiness. Some chapters seem to be quite amusing, now that they are long behind.
I actually wrote these chapters for my family, to tell them about the Pakistan they do not know. My daughter felt, this had a wider interest for other people, who wanted to know about the country and its day to day problems in a different way from the propaganda available on TV.
The story is very personal, and I can not guarantee for the things I wrote about politics for instance; this reflects my personal opinion.
The writer is a Swiss national who followed her husband to Pakistan in 1960. She had to live under the most primitive living conditions for some time. Two of her four daughters are married in Pakistan, while the fourth lives in Canada. Her son has opted to make his life in Switzerland. That is were she lives now since 2000, after the death in a car accident of her husband.