LOVERS - Couverture souple

Nordland, Rod

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006237883X ISBN 13 : 9780062378835

Editeur : EccoPress, 2016

Synopsis

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world.

Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia’s large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family’s honor. They are still in hiding.

Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger.

The Lovers will do for women’s rights generally what Malala’s story did for women’s education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rod Nordland (1949-2025) was the New York Times’s Pulitzer Prize–winning international correspondent at large. Formerly the paper’s Kabul bureau chief, he worked as a foreign correspondent in more than 150 countries. He was Newsweek’s chief foreign correspondent, serving as Baghdad bureau chief from 2003–2005. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for news reporting and also a finalist for a Pulitzer in international reporting from Southeast Asia. He received two George Polk awards; several Overseas Press Club awards, and many other honors. He was the author of The Lovers: Afghanistan’s Romeo & Juliet.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In this brilliant, deeply reported account of two young people who risked their lives to be together, Pulitzer Prize winner Rod Nordland puts a face on the debate about women’s rights in the fundamentalist Muslim world.

Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. Separated by custom at puberty, they fell in love from afar. Defying family, cultural convention, and Islamic law, the two lovers eloped and, pursued by Zakia’s family, went into hiding. A harrowing, eye—opening story of one couple’s unshakable self—determination, The Lovers puts a face on the debate about women’s rights in the fundamentalist Muslim world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: EccoPress
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006237883X
• ISBN 13: 9780062378835
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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