The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062442161
- ISBN: 9780062378828
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Physical Description:
xviii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : coloured illustrations, map ; 24 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: New York, New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Man-woman relationships -- Afghanistan -- Case studies Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Afghanistan -- Biography |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Louise Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Louise Public Library | 958.104 NOR (Text) | 36761000100318 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An account illuminating the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world documents the true story of how two people from different Afghani tribes pursued a relationship against Islamic law and remain in hiding from relatives who intend to killthem to restore family honor. - Baker & Taylor
An account illuminating the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world documents the true story of how two people from different Afghani tribes pursued marriage against Islamic law and remain in hiding from relatives who would kill them to restore family honor. 100,000 first printing. - HARPERCOLL
A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner'an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world.
Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor. They are still in hiding.
Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger.
The Lovers will do for women's rights generally what Malala's story did for women's education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change.
- HARPERCOLL
A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world.
Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia’s large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family’s honor. They are still in hiding.
Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger.
The Lovers will do for women’s rights generally what Malala’s story did for women’s education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change.