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A House Without Windows

Catherine — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:19:28 +0000

Author Nadia Hashimi’s family is from Afghanistan and her time spent listening to their stories and travelling in Afghanistan herself gives her novels the weight of truth. Her last novel, The Pearl that Broke its Shell, was a blend of the modern day with the story of the fabled women who guard an ancient […]

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The Pearl that Broke its Shell

Catherine — Wed, 07 May 2014 07:22:38 +0000

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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And the Mountains Echoed

Catherine — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:58:21 +0000

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. The first time we met Khaled Hosseini was ten years ago when he took us to a place called Afghanistan, which most of us knew only as a foreign enemy, not a […]

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