The Book Circle - Born Under a Million Shadows
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The May Cardholders' Choice of the Month is Born Under a Million Shadows by British journalist Andrea Busfield. Join in the discussion below to share your views on this moving tale.
About the book:
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. Then Mariya finds a position as housekeeper for a charismatic western woman, Georgie, and Fawad dares to hope for an end to their struggle. He soon discovers that his beloved Georgie is caught up in a dangerous love affair with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan, a legendary name on the streets of Kabul. At first resentful of Haji Khan's presence, Fawad learns that love can move a man to act in surprising ways, and an overwhelming act of generosity persuades him of the warlord's good intentions. But even a man as influential as Haji Khan can't protect Fawad from the next tragedy to blight his young life, a tragedy so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing Fawad thought he could never lose: his love for his country.
"The story has lots of different things in it; love, violence, arranged marriages, culture and much, much more. I would recommend this to anyone, even if it isn't normally your kind of book. I thoroughly enjoyed it."
Zoey Totty
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