Under the persimmon tree
By: Suzanne Fisher Staples.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Afghan War, 2001- -- Juvenile fiction; Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction; Refugees -- Fiction; Afghanistan -- History -- 2001- -- Juvenile fiction; Afghanistan -- History -- 2001- -- Fiction; Peshawar (Pakistan) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."