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Rukshana is a spirited young journalist working in Kabul, Afghanistan, where her mother and brother are struggling to make ends meet. One day, she is summoned to meet with the notorious Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, where the malevolent minister, Zorak Wahidi, announces that the Taliban will be organizing a cricket tournament. The minister believes that cricket can prove that the Taliban is a fair and just society, but Rukshana knows that this is a shameless and deeply surreal idea. The Taliban will never embrace a game rooted in civility, fairness, and equality, and no one in Afghanistan even knows how to play the game. But Rukshana is determined to prove the minister wrong. With the help of her Afghan teammates, including a young woman who is an arranged marriage and a cricket expert, Rukshana sets out to organize the tournament and prove that the Taliban is not the barbaric society many people believe it to be.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Timeri Murari
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