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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Fatima Bhutto
Penguin Press
April 2015
On Sale: March 24, 2015
304 pages
ISBN: 1594205604
EAN: 9781594205606
Kindle: B00LFZ83XK
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Long-listed for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a
lyrical novel set over the course of one morning in a small
town in Pakistan Fatima Bhutto’s stunning debut novel chronicles the lives of
five young people trying to live and love in a world on
fire. Set during the American invasion of Afghanistan,
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon begins and ends one
rain-swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in
Pakistan’s Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest,
Aman Erum, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to
the local mosque. Sikandar, a doctor, drives to the hospital
where he works, but must first stop to collect his troubled
wife, who has not joined the family that morning. No one
knows where Mina goes these days. Sikandar is exhausted by
Mina’s instability and by the pall of grief that has
enveloped his family. But when, later in the morning, the
two are taken hostage by members of the Taliban, Mina will
prove to be stronger than anyone could have imagined. >The youngest of the three leaves for town on a motorbike.
An idealist, Hayat holds strong to his deathbed promise to
their father—to free Mir Ali from oppressors. Seated behind
him is a beautiful, fragile girl whose life and thoughts are
overwhelmed by the war that has enveloped the place of her
birth. Three hours later their day will end in
devastating circumstances. In this beautifully observed novel, individuals are pushed
to make terrible choices. And as the events of this single
morning unfold, one woman is at the center of it all.
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