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A Novel
HarperCollins From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimiβa gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. 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 timeβwomen who had grown up in relative peace, gone to school, entered the professions, even served in the army and Parliament.Β 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.Β They include Marjan, who fought with the Afghan army, and will risk everything to keep her daughter Hawa safe.Β In her earlier days Marjan was called Rahima and had lived the life of aΒ bacha poshβa 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. Sheβs 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 armyβs all-female combat force over the objections of her upper-class family. Sorayaβs 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 Kabulβincluding the new regime? Fight or flight? Or find a third way? One thing is for certain: none of these women will meekly accept her fate. An epic saga of fear, resistance, change, and reinvention,Β City of WidowsΒ gives voices to the unforgettable Afghan women at a crossroads of history. 
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