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384 pages : 1 map Cover subtitle: A novel Summary: In Kabul, we meet Fereiba, a schoolteacher who puts her troubled childhood behind her when she finds love in an arranged marriage. Fereiba's comfortable life implodes when the Taliban rises to power and her family becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime. Forces to flee with her three children, Fereiba has one hope for survival; to seek refuge with her sister's family in London. (Book cover flap)