Bibliograph

The pearl that broke its shell, Nadia Hashimi

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Label

The pearl that broke its shell, Nadia Hashimi

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The pearl that broke its shell

Oclc number

950751179

Responsibility statement

Nadia Hashimi

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print peer picks

Summary

Set in Afghanistan, this emotionally engaging first novel uses alternating chapters to weave together the story of nine-year-old Rahima and her sisters with that of their great-great-grandmother Shekiba. Both Rahima and Shekiba share the experience of participating in bacha posh, in which young girls are dressed as and treated as boys until puberty. And like Shekiba, Rahima and her two older sisters endure the difficult and often horrific experience of being married off as young girls as second, third, or fourth wives to much older men. Although decades separate the distinctive stories of these women as they move from girlhood to adulthood, the hardships suffered by women in the Afghan culture remain the chilling tie that binds them

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