Born under a million shadows / Andrea Busfield.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Doubleday, 2009.Description: 302 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385616164 (pbk.)
- 0385616163 (pbk.)
- Mothers and sons -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Fiction
- Warlordism -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Warlordism -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Fiction
- Warlordism -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons Afghanistan Kabul Fiction
- Warlordism Afghanistan Kabul Fiction
- Kabul (Afghanistan) Fiction
- Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Fiction
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Stackroom | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru | DELETENOW | BUS | 1 | Available | T00486762 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence.
Then Mariya finds a position as housekeeper for a charismatic western woman, Georgie, and Fawad dares to hope for an end to their struggle. He soon discovers that his beloved Georgie is caught up in a dangerous love affair with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan, a legendary name on the streets of Kabul. At first resentful of Haji Khan's presence, Fawad learns that love can move a man to act in surprising ways, and an overwhelming act of generosity persuades him of the warlord's good intentions.
But even a man as influential as Haji Khan can't protect Fawad from the next tragedy to blight his young life, a tragedy so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing Fawad thought he could never lose: his love for his country.
"Fighting for love in the shadow of the Taliban"--Cover.
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