Format:
Book
Author:
Nordland, Rod, author.
Title:
The lovers : Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing / Rod Nordland.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Description:
xviii, 362 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary:
Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia?s large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family?s honor. They are still in hiding. Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships -- Afghanistan -- Case studies.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Afghanistan -- Biography.
Genre:
Case studies.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-346) and index.
ISBN:
9780062378828
0062378821
Other Number:
935213892
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
95484
Call Number:
305.4 NOR
Course Reserves:
0
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1
# System items in:
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