High-Life in Pakistan

Description

Regula Bubb lived in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2014 as the “trailing” spouse, as she puts it, accompanying her husband, the Swiss Ambassador at that time.

What started as a blog, written for her friends around the globe, transformed into a book with the title “High-Life in Pakistan”

She explores and discovers an intriguing society of contrasts and her writings offer a fascinating blend of political realities mixed with the social kaleidoscope that make Pakistan such a compelling country.

Analytical, humorous, yet gentle in all the right places she deftly switches between a feudal lord’s gilded chair in Sindh to a small space on a bed between tribal women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and then to a hard pillow on the floor in front of village elders in an Afghan refugee camp and lets us being part of her voyage in this unique narrative.

Her descriptions of the glimpses behind the veil of Pakistani society, of hilariously comic situations and heartbreaking encounters, give us a picture of the complexity of this country and society that even surprises the Pakistani reader with its refreshing view of a foreigner. She discovers and analyzes with an open mind, clearly enjoying the colorful mosaic of life in today’s Pakistan.