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After the Taliban seize power, civil engineer Mahmoud is executed and his wife, Fereiba, a devoted schoolteacher, is forced to flee Kabul with their three children. With forged papers, she escapes eastward into Iran and then into Greece, enduring hardship and the constant threat of capture. In a crowded market in Greece, her teenage son Saleem becomes separated from the family and ends up entangled in the clandestine network of undocumented Afghans in European capitals. Fereiba, with her daughter and infant, faces an impossible choice as she searches to reunite with Saleem and rebuild their lives under tremendous precarious circumstances.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Coming of Age/Teen Coming of Age
Authors: Nadia Hashimi
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