The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
by:
Nadia Hashimi (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062338518 (006233851X)
Publish date: May 6th 2014
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
As depicted by Nadia Hashimi in The Pearl that Broke Its Shell, there is only one correct way to be a woman. First, girls are obedient daughters, then they are obedient wives who have sons. There is only one tiny exception; everything else is deeply wrong or criminal. The exceptions are the bacha po...
I don't know about you, but I had only recently heard of the Afghan practice of bacha posh, and I hadn't even heard the term until this book. I had no idea what I was getting into. I have to say that what I loved the most about the book was that it was composed of parallel stories in two different ...
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi I don't know about you, but I had only recently heard of the Afghan practice of bacha posh, and I hadn't even heard the term until this book. I had no idea what I was getting into. I have to say that what I loved the most about the book was that it was...
I had never heard of the Afghan concept of 'bacha posh', where a family with only daughters could decide to dress one of the girls as a boy and have her/him permitted to behave as a boy; attending school with other boys and being excused the household chores like a boy would be, able to go out and d...
THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL, BY NADIA HASHIMIThe friend who recommended this one to me said it was heavy, but a good read. It is, indeed, very heavy, and quite frustrating. I've been reading lots of very heavy books lately. Apparently, women write a lot of those.Synopsis: Rahima, a young Afghani ...
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