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• Rod Nordland is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist who is partly based in the UK.• In the bestselling tradition of The Bookseller of Kabul and The Kite Runner.• The story of Zakia and Mohammad Ali is widely known world over.• Rod Nordland is the Kabul Bureau Chief for the New York Times. Rights sold in US, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands and Italy.• The author thoughtfully considers the extent to which the West, acting from the outside, can effect social reform in Muslim fundamentalist cultures. A provocative, well-told story of love at all costs and an incisive examination of the continued violation of women's rights in Afghanistan. -- Kirkus• The couple's survival, in the face of familial and societal condemnation, provides a happy if incomplete resolution... less uplifting is Nordland's reporting on the overall situation for women in Afghanistan, a country that Massouda Jalal, former Afghan minister for women's affairs, calls "the worst place in the world to be a woman. --Publishers Weekly. "She is his Juliet and he is her Romeo, and her family has threatened to kill them both..."This is the heartrending account of Zakia and Mohammad Ali, a couple from opposing ethnic sects, who defying their society's norms have left behind everything they know and are quite literally risking their lives for their love. Friends from childhood, Zakia and Mohammad Ali could never have predicted that their love would anger their families so much that they would be forced to leave their homes finding refuge only in the harsh terrain of the Afghani mountains. Without money or passports they rely on the kindness of strangers to house them for a couple of days at a time as they remain on the run, never deterred. New York Times journalist, Rod Nordland, has chronicled the plight of the young lovers telling their extraordinary story of courage, perseverance and love in one of the world's most troubled countries. This moving love story is told against the bigger backdrop of the horrific but widespread practices that women are subjected to in Afghanistan.
Product Details
Title: | The Lovers |
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Author: | Rod Nordland |
Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
ISBN: | 9781473607002 |
SKU: | BK0257570 |
EAN: | 9781473607002 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Staple Bound |
Release date: | 03 September 2016 |