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Hashimi, Nadia.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Women prisoners -- Fiction.
False impersonation -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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Hashimi, Nadia.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Women prisoners -- Fiction.
False impersonation -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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A
house
without
windows
/ Nadia Hashimi.
by
Hashimi, Nadia.
William Morrow, [2016]
Call #:
FICTION HAS
Subjects
Women -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Women prisoners -- Fiction.
False impersonation -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062449658
9780062477842 (trade pbk.)
9780062449689 (hc.)
Description:
414 p. 24 cm.
Summary:
"For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal’s family is sure she did, and demands justice. Barely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed. As Zeba awaits trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have also led them to these bleak cells: thirty-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an honor killing; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, who ran away from home with her teenage sister but now stays in the prison because it is safe shelter; and nineteen-year-old Mezhgan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting for her lover’s family to ask for her hand in marriage. Is Zeba a cold-blooded killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, as they have been, for breaking some social rule? For these women, the prison is both a haven and a punishment. Removed from the harsh and unforgiving world outside, they form a lively and indelible sisterhood. Into this closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba’s Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer, whose commitment to human rights and desire to help his motherland have brought him back. With the fate of this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands, Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, A
House
Without
Windows
is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant."--From publisher.
Genre:
Women's fiction.
Literary fiction.
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