The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

Rahima's family has no sons, so she becomes a bacha posh — dressed as a boy, allowed to go to school and to the market, until she reaches an age where the arrangement must end.

A hundred years earlier her great-great-grandmother Shekiba lived the same way, and ended up guarding a king's harem. Hashimi alternates the two lives, and the parallel is the argument: the freedoms available to Afghan women a century apart are almost identical, and both are conditional on being mistaken for something else.

An international bestseller, and one of the essential novels about women's lives in Afghanistan.

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