When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, a former schoolteacher embarks on a life-risking effort to escape to England with her three children. By the internationally best-selling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell. 50,000 first printing When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
