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Barcode30293102386658
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call NoF Hash
TitleCity of widows : a novel / Nadia Hashimi.
AuthorHashimi, Nadia, author.
CollectionF
Total Circ0
NumReserves1
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102386658F Hash8/4/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063423558 electronic book
International Standard Book Number 9780063423541 hardcover
International Standard Book Number 0063423545 hardcover
Personal Name Hashimi, Nadia, author.
Title Statement City of widows : a novel / Nadia Hashimi.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
Physical Description 421 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "Bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi returns with a spellbinding new novel all about the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. Gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful, this is a spectacular story by a popular writer at the height of her powers"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary, Etc. 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 time -- women who had grown up in relative peace, gone to school, entered the professions, even served in the army and Parliament. 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. They include Marjan, who fought with the Afghan army, and will risk everything to keep her daughter Hawa safe. In her earlier days Marjan was called Rahima and had lived the life of a bacha posh -- a 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. She's 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 army's all-female combat force over the objections of her upper-class family. Soraya's 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 Kabul -- including the new regime? Fight or flight? Or find a third way? One thing is for none of these women will meekly accept her fate.
Subject-Corporate Name Taliban Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Sex role Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Muslim women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women Afghanistan Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Afghanistan Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Social problem fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Fiction.

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