Лучшие книги Нади Хашими

Афганистан, 2007 год. У Рахимы и ее сестер отец наркоман, братьев нет, школу они могут посещать лишь иногда и вообще редко выходят из дома. Надеяться им остается только на древнюю традицию "бача пош", благодаря которой Рахиме можно одеться как мальчику и вести себя как мальчик, - пока она не достигнет брачного возраста. В качестве "сына" ей разрешено всюду ходить и сопровождать старших сестер. Но что будет, когда Рахима повзрослеет? Как долго она будет оставаться "мужчиной"? И удастся ли ей смириться с ролью невесты? Дебютный роман Нади Хашими, американки афганского происхождения, - это рассказ о трудной судьбе, о бессилии и о праве…

Постепенно у нее отняли все: право учить детей, открывать лицо и выходить на улицу без сопровождения мужчины, слушать музыку и хранить дома фотографии. Ее муж — талантливый инженер, мечтавший напоить водой родной Кабул, — не может смириться с тем, что Афганистан скатывается в средневековье. А когда он исчезнет навсегда в застенках талибов, Ферейба поймет: нужно спасаться, в одиночку осуществить задуманный вдвоем побег через границу. Теперь судьба детей зависит только от нее. Ферейба не побоится превратиться из почтенной жены в бесправную беженку. По-настоящему она испугается, когда должна будет выбрать между умирающим от порока сердца…

Internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for young readers is an emotional, beautiful, and riveting coming-of-age journey to modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh—a preteen girl dressed as a boy.

Obayda’s family is in need of some good fortune.

Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda’s father almost never leaves his room.

One day, Obayda’s aunt has an idea to bring the family luck—dress Obayda, the youngest of her sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh.

Now Obayda is Obayd.

Life in this in-between place is confusing, but once Obayda meets another bacha posh, everything changes. The two of them can explore the village on their own, climbing trees, playing sports, and more.

But their transformation won’t last forever—unless the two best friends can figure out a way to make it stick and make their newfound freedoms endure.

An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low.

Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan’s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan’s progressive president, and Sitara’s beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara’s world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara’s entire family. Only she survives.

Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name—Aryana Shepherd—and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured.

New York, 2008: Forty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana’s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room—a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana’s fury and desire for answers—and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul—a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban—and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost.

Bold, illuminating, heartbreaking, yet hopeful, Sparks Like Stars is a story of home—of America and Afghanistan, tragedy and survival, reinvention and remembrance, told in Nadia Hashimi’s singular voice.