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A House Without Windows Author: Nadia Hashimi

ISBN: 9780062477842 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 384 Published: 25 July 2016 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.3 x 2.9 Description: A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood an emotionally powerful and haunting tale 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. As Zeba awaits trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have also led them to these bleak cells: thirty-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an honor killing; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, who ran away from home with her teenage sister but now stays in the prison because it is safe shelter; and nineteen-year-old Mezhgan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting f...

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