When the Moon is Low by
Nadia Hashimi tells the story of an Afghan family's escape from the Taliban and of their journey across Europe seeking asylum. "Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater
than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a
life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is
engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil
engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is
murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba has one
hope to survive: she must find a way to cross Europe and reach her
sister's family in England. With forged papers and help from kind
strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing
into Iran under cover of darkness. Exhausted and brokenhearted but
undefeated, Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece. But in a
busy market square, their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage
son, Saleem, becomes separated from the rest of the family. Faced
with an impossible choice, Fereiba pushes on with her daughter and
baby, while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of
undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe's capitals. Across
the continent Fereiba and Saleem struggle to reunite, and ultimately
find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives."
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