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Nadia Hashimi, "When the Moon is Low"
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July 23, 2015
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as posted by the channelA Washington-area pediatrician whose parents left Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion, Hashimi first visited her ancestral homeland in 2002. In her second novel, the author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell follows the fortunes of a family struggling to escape Taliban-controlled Kabul to join relatives in Britain. But when the son is separated from his parents and sister in Greece, the group has to make the painful decision to split up, unsure if they will ever be reunited.
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