A moving story by an Afghan woman born in 1960, written by American author Maryam Khail, the daughter of a wealthy Pashtun Khail family, tells the story of her family against the backdrop of the turbulent historical events of the second half of the t ...
A moving story by an Afghan woman born in 1960, written by American author Maryam Khail, the daughter of a wealthy Pashtun Khail family, tells the story of her family against the backdrop of the turbulent historical events of the second half of the twentieth-century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. She was born into an intelligent, enlightened Pashtun-Tajik family. Both parents had higher education, including her father, who studied in Europe. Raised in a country where women were discriminated against, Maryam acquired a strong sense of her own dignity and high aspirations from her home. Supported by her parents, she dreams of a different model of life than the everyday life surrounding her in a war-torn, backward homeland. They decide to emigrate from the country when the Soviet invasion begins. Maryam's husband Kaiss played the role of a brutal rapist and tyrant who tries to show his true face immediately after the wedding. A nightmare begins that seems to be interrupted by the birth of her son Duran. whose ambitions to have a son are temporarily satisfied changes positively but only for a short time, only to return to his brutal practices. Desperate, beaten, and insulted, Maryam, feeling her life and the life of her child are in danger, runs away to her father and files for divorce. Sasson's book is an important voice in the matter of the situation of women in the world in general and in the Middle East in particular. It moves deeply and forces reflection
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