Pearl That Broke Its Shell

A Novel

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Nadia Hashimi: Pearl That Broke Its Shell (2014, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published March 15, 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-224477-2
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In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Afghanistan, fiction