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The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families (Large Print Edition)

The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families (Large Print Edition)

Nordland, Rod

Paperback

IslamSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0062442163
ISBN13: 9780062442161
Publisher: Harper Large Print
Published: Jan 26 2016
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner--an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world.

Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor. They are still in hiding.

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