{"product_id":"a-house-without-windows-9780062449658","title":"A House Without Windows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood--an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture--from the author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eThe Pearl That Broke Its Shell\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhen the Moon Is Low.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal's family is sure she did, and demands justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed. As Zeba awaits trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have also led them to these bleak cells: thirty-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an honor killing; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, who ran away from home with her teenage sister but now stays in the prison because it is safe shelter; and nineteen-year-old Mezhgan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting for her lover's family to ask for her hand in marriage. Is Zeba a cold-blooded killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, as they have been, for breaking some social rule? For these women, the prison is both a haven and a punishment. Removed from the harsh and unforgiving world outside, they form a lively and indelible sisterhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba's Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer, whose commitment to human rights and desire to help his motherland have brought him back. With the fate of this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands, Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, \u003cem\u003eA House Without Windows\u003c\/em\u003e is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHashimi, Nadia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eNadia Hashimi was born and raised in New York and New Jersey. Both her parents were born in Afghanistan and left in the early 1970s, before the Soviet invasion. In 2002, Nadia made her first trip to Afghanistan with her parents. She is a pediatrician and lives with her family in the Washington, DC, suburbs. She is the author of three books for adults, as well as the middle grade novels \u003cem\u003eOne \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eHalf from the East \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Sky at Our Feet. \u003c\/em\u003eVisit her online at www.nadiahashimi.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912427507986,"sku":"9780062449658","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16debe52-ec13-4a12-8ac8-2a2917afc153.jpg?v=1738771369","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-house-without-windows-9780062449658","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}