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A House Without Windows


by Nadia Hashimi.


ISBN-13 : 9780062449689

Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date : 08/16/2016

Pages : 432


A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful

and haunting story of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a

traditional culture, from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke

Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.



For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful

villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found

brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly

catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the

time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed

such a heinous act. Kamal’s family is sure she did, and demands justice.

Barely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed.



Awaiting trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have led them

to these bleak cells: eighteen-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from

an “honor killing”; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, a teen runaway who stays

because it is safe shelter; twenty-year-old Mezghan, pregnant and unmarried,

waiting for a court order to force her lover’s hand. Is Zeba a cold-blooded

killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, like them, for

breaking some social rule? For these women, the prison is both a haven and a

punishment; removed from the harsh and unforgiving world outside, they form a

lively and indelible sisterhood.



Into this closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba’s Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer

whose commitment to human rights and desire to help his homeland have brought

him back. With the fate this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands, Yusuf

discovers that, like the Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what

he imagines.



A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, The House with No Windows

is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant.



Author Info:

Nadia Hashimi is an Afghan American pediatrician living in suburban

Washington, D.C. She is the author of the international bestseller The Pearl

That Broke Its Shell.



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