Nadia Hashimi Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/nadia-hashimi/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:16:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Nadia Hashimi Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/nadia-hashimi/ 32 32 38398750 Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/sparks-like-stars-by-nadia-hashimi/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/03/sparks-like-stars-by-nadia-hashimi/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:35:13 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15460 When Sitara is 10 years old her life is flipped upside down. She goes from being the beloved only daughter of a high-ranking Afghan advisor to the country’s president to an orphan on the run. It’s 1982 and Communist backed forces stage a military coup in Nadia Hashimi’s new novel, Sparks Like Stars. Sitara’s family […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/a-house-without-windows/feed/ 3 6949 The Pearl that Broke its Shell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/pearl-that-broke-shell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/pearl-that-broke-shell/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 07:22:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2827 Nadia Hashimi merges the past with the present in the story of two women from one family. Rahima has the grave misfortune to be yet another daughter born into her family. In Afghanistan the lack of sons is a social and economic disaster. Her father is addicted to opium and does little or no work. […]

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