City of widows : a novel / Nadia Hashimi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hashimi, Nadia, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Afghanistan--Fiction.

Women.

Afghanistan--Fiction.

Afghanistan.

Sex role--Fiction.

Sex role.

Taliban--Fiction.

Taliban.

Muslim women--Fiction.

Muslim women.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Family life--Afghanistan--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction

Novels

Domestic fiction.

Social problem fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

421 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]

Summary:

"Bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi returns with a spellbinding new novel all about the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. Gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful, this is a spectacular story by a popular writer at the height of her powers"-- Provided by publisher.

In February 2020 the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of occupation. A whole generation of Afghan women had been born during that time--women who had grown up in relative peace, gone to school, entered the professions, even served in the army and Parliament. The women of Afghanistan watched as the Taliban filled the streets again. They knew everything was about to change. In the bustling, cosmopolitan city of Kabul, women are TV newscasters, shop owners, doctors, teachers, lawyers, even soldiers. They include Marjan, who fought with the Afghan army, and will risk everything to keep her daughter Hawa safe. In her earlier days Marjan was called Rahima and had lived the life of a bacha posh--a girl raised as a boy until she came of age. Forced into an early marriage, Rahima took the name Marjan when she fled her warlord husband. She's created a whole new life for herself, one she will not give up easily. So has Soraya, who defiantly wore red lipstick as she led the army's all-female combat force over the objections of her upper-class family. Soraya's now a wanted woman whose brother may choose not to shelter her from the Taliban. What will become of her? Or Mina, a journalist and broadcaster whose beautiful face is known to everyone in Kabul--including the new regime? Fight or flight? Or find a third way? One thing is for none of these women will meekly accept her fate.

ISBN:

9780063423541

0063423545

OCLC:

1550459422

Publisher Number:

CIPO000408901