When the Moon Is Low: A Novel
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Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.
Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba has one hope to survive: she must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister's family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness. Exhausted and brokenhearted but undefeated, Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece. But in a busy market square, their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage son, Saleem, becomes separated from the rest of the family.
Faced with an impossible choice, Fereiba pushes on with her daughter and baby, while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe's capitals. Across the continent Fereiba and Saleem struggle to reunite, and ultimately find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives.
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Nadia Hashimi. (2015). When the Moon Is Low: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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Nadia Hashimi is a pediatrician turned international bestselling novelist and daughter of Afghan immigrants. She is the author of four books for adults, as well as the middle grade novels One Half from the East and The Sky at Our Feet. She lives with her family in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Visit her online at nadiahashimibooks.com.
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Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.
Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba has one hope to survive: she must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister's family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness. Exhausted and brokenhearted but undefeated, Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece. But in a busy market square, their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage son, Saleem, becomes separated from the rest of the family.
Faced with an impossible choice, Fereiba pushes on with her daughter and baby, while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe's capitals. Across the continent Fereiba and Saleem struggle to reunite, and ultimately find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives.
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"Expertly depicting the anxiety and excitement that accompanies a new life, Hashimi's gripping page-turner is perfect for book clubs." — Library Journal (starred review)
"A must-read saga about borders, barriers, and the resolve of one courageous mother fighting to cross over." — O, the Oprah Magazine
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Returning to the setting of contemporary Afghanistan, Hashimi (The Pearl That Broke Its Shell) follows the childhood and maturity of Fereiba after her mother died in childbirth and her father remarries a woman who favors her own daughters. Perceived by neighbors as bad luck, Fereiba struggles to find a suitor. An unknown, Mahmood Waziri, enters the picture, and over time, the Waziri family comes to include son Saleem and daughter Samira. Fereiba relays the devastating effects the Taliban has on daily life in Kabul, especially after Mahmood is captured. Shortly after giving birth to a son, Aziz, an impoverished Fereiba, and her three children trek to Iran, then onward to Turkey attempting to join her stepsister Najiba in England. Later chapters are narrated by a teenage Saleem as he endures menial labor to support his family, notably an ailing Aziz. Through the kindness of locals, the family's journey takes them to Greece, where Saleem is detained, as the rest of the family continues. Hashimi masterfully captures Saleem's moving story as he squats in refugee camps, stealthily makes his way to Italy, and unexpectedly finds transport to France, all while haunted by loving memories of Mahmood. VERDICT Expertly depicting the anxiety and excitement that accompanies a new life, Hashimi's gripping page-turner is perfect for book clubs. [See Prepub Alert, 1/5/15.]--Stephanie Sendaula, Library Journal
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Hashimi's follow-up to her debut, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (2014), is the powerful story of an Afghan family fleeing Taliban-controlled Kabul in the late 1990s. After her romantic dreams of marrying the boy next door are dashed, Fereiba is wed to the boy's cousin, an engineer named Mahmoud. The two are happy together until the Taliban's rise to power forces Fereiba to give up her job as a teacher. Mahmoud and Fereiba make plans to flee Kabul with their two children (a third is on the way), but before they can leave, the Taliban arrests Mahmoud. With no choice but to take her children and run, Fereiba begins a dangerous journey across Asia and Europe. Fereiba is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers and the ingenuity of her 15-year-old son, Saleem, until a run-in with Greek police officers separates him from his mother and siblings. With grace and sensitivity, Hashimi illuminates the harrowing odysseys and numerous dangers refugees contend with in their quest for a safe haven.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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Hashimi's parents left Afghanistan in the 1970s, and she never saw the country until 2002. A strong sense of legacy allows her to write intimately about the country, first in The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and now in this new novel. When her husband is killed by the Taliban, Fereiba decides that she must flee with her family to her sister in England. They get as far as Greece, where her teenage son disappears.
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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