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Author:

Hashimi, Nadia.

Title:

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell : a novel / Nadia Hashimi.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

William Morrow,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Sisters--Fiction.
Impersonation--Fiction.
Women--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Kabul (Afghanistan)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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, and 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.

ISBN:

0062244760 (trade pbk.)
9780062244765 (trade pbk.)
0062244752 (hardcover)
9780062244758 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2013025523

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