The pearl that broke its shell
(2014)
By:
Hashimi, Nadia
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/HASHIMI,N
1 Hold on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
452 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062244758 (hardcover), 9780062244765 (trade pbk.), 0062244752 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In Kabul in 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