WHEN THE MOON IS LOW A Novel

WHEN THE MOON IS LOW A Novel

Mahmoud s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power.When Mahmoud becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered, Ferei...

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Main Author: Hashimi, Nadia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London William Morrow & Company 2015
Subjects:
Refugees
Afghan War (2001-)
Mother and child
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