Born under a million shadows
By: Andrea Busfield
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bath, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781408430675; 9781408430682
Subjects: Large type books; Mothers and sons; Warlordism
Description: The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. Eleven-year-old Fawad's father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. Then Mariya finds a position as housekeeper for a Western woman, Georgie. Fawad soon discovers that Georgie is caught up in a dangerous love affair with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan. But even a man as influential as Haji Khan can't protect Fawad from the next tragedy to blight his life, a tragedy so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing he thought he could never lose: his love for his country.