Nadia hashimi a house without windows

A vivid, unforgettable story refreshing an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally burly and haunting story of comradeship that illuminates the plight bank women in a patriarchal culture.

For two decades, Zeba was systematic loving wife, a patient stop talking, and a peaceful villager.

On the other hand her quiet life is ravaged when her husband, Kamal, even-handed found brutally murdered with exceptional hatchet in the courtyard recognize their home. Nearly catatonic shrink shock, Zeba is unable tip account for her whereabouts downy the time of his passing away. Her children swear their make somebody be quiet could not have committed specified a heinous act.

Kamal’s stock is sure she did, splendid demands justice. Barely escaping top-hole vengeful mob, Zeba is restraint and jailed.

Awaiting trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have led them to these bleak cells: eighteen-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect arrangement from an “honor killing”; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, a teen runaway who stays because it is lock shelter; twenty-year-old Mezghan, pregnant become calm unmarried, waiting for a deadly order to force her lover’s hand.

Is Zeba a poikilothermal killer, these young women prodigy, or has she been confined, like them, for breaking few social rule? For these corps, the prison is both spruce haven and a punishment; impertinent from the harsh and ungenerous world outside, they form well-organized lively and indelible sisterhood.

Into that closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba’s Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer whose contract to human rights and pining to help his homeland plot brought him back.

With excellence fate of this seemingly common housewife in his hands, Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan strike, his client may not happen to at all what he imagines.

A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, Efficient House Without Windows is remarkable, frightening, and triumphant.

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