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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
by Nadia Hashimi
Welcome to Nadia’s world again. Such a powerful writer - with such immense hold over words and submissive thoughts, skill to hold the strings of the reader’s heart.
Book name – A pearl that broke its shell
Synopsis –
Kabul in 2007, rahima and her sisters can barely attend school. With drug addict fathers, brothers and the community around is like a living hell. War prone areas these girls are more of a burden on the father than anything else. Rahima is then thriving on the custom of bacha posh – in which she is allowed to dress as a boy and attend school. But then all rahima and her sisters are forcibly married off. The book also narrates the lifecycle of rahima’s great aunt shekiba who left as an orphaned strives to build her life in some way.
My take on this book :
These kinds of books bring us back on gravity. We are sometimes so immersed that the world is progressing, and we have even reached the Mars. But in so many corners of the world, women are living in conditions which are worse than trash. Words like feminism, self-respect, self-dignity, and consensus have not even reached the shores surrounding these women. Imagine being treated as an item of possession and being just passed from one man to another – this is what happened to shekiba all her life. Rahima’s life was no different.
Reading books like these makes me feel that the word human rights have no existence in these places. How am I supposed to judge a book like this? These women are confined in their homes, denied of freedom, silenced for their lives; their existence doesn’t even matter at all.
I feel shattered after reading this book. And I wish for that one sunrise when all these afghan women would be embracing their freedom and living a generous life.
I liked that the writing if this book was simple and plain. Sometimes too much poetic prose harms the raw emotions. This was a straight forward storytelling which never loosed its grip. I love that this book ended on a ray of hope. Overall, an epic spellbinding book by hashimi. A must read for all.
Book name – A pearl that broke its shell
Synopsis –
Kabul in 2007, rahima and her sisters can barely attend school. With drug addict fathers, brothers and the community around is like a living hell. War prone areas these girls are more of a burden on the father than anything else. Rahima is then thriving on the custom of bacha posh – in which she is allowed to dress as a boy and attend school. But then all rahima and her sisters are forcibly married off. The book also narrates the lifecycle of rahima’s great aunt shekiba who left as an orphaned strives to build her life in some way.
My take on this book :
These kinds of books bring us back on gravity. We are sometimes so immersed that the world is progressing, and we have even reached the Mars. But in so many corners of the world, women are living in conditions which are worse than trash. Words like feminism, self-respect, self-dignity, and consensus have not even reached the shores surrounding these women. Imagine being treated as an item of possession and being just passed from one man to another – this is what happened to shekiba all her life. Rahima’s life was no different.
Reading books like these makes me feel that the word human rights have no existence in these places. How am I supposed to judge a book like this? These women are confined in their homes, denied of freedom, silenced for their lives; their existence doesn’t even matter at all.
I feel shattered after reading this book. And I wish for that one sunrise when all these afghan women would be embracing their freedom and living a generous life.
I liked that the writing if this book was simple and plain. Sometimes too much poetic prose harms the raw emotions. This was a straight forward storytelling which never loosed its grip. I love that this book ended on a ray of hope. Overall, an epic spellbinding book by hashimi. A must read for all.