Jump quickly to results on these stores:
The Women in the Castle: A Novel | Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) | The Orphan's Tale | The Dry | A Gentleman in Moscow | The Golden Son | City of Thorns | What Was Mine | A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runnerâan astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about womenâs rights in the Muslim world.
Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakiaâs large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the familyâs honor. They are still in hiding.
Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger.
The Lovers will do for womenâs rights generally what Malalaâs story did for womenâs education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change.
About: A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runnerâan astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about womenâs rights in the Muslim world.
About: A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runnerâan astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about womenâs rights in the Muslim world.
Pricing is shown for items sent to or within the U.S., excluding shipping and tax. Please consult the store to determine exact fees. No warranties are made express or implied about the accuracy, timeliness, merit, or value of the information provided. Information subject to change without notice. isbn.nu is not a bookseller, just an information source.