The pearl that broke its shell, Nadia Hashimi
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The pearl that broke its shell, Nadia Hashimi
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The pearl that broke its shell
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853664407
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Nadia Hashimi
Summary
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. As a boy, she has the kind of freedom that was previously unimaginable . . . freedom that will transform her forever. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-great-grandmother Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life in the same way
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