Ma vie de Bacha Posh

Deux fabuleux destins de femmes qui nous plongent au coeur de l'Afghanistan, de sa culture, de sa population, de ses conflits qui régissent la vie de ses habitants depuis bien trop longtemps. Une plume fine, délicate et douce malgré les duretés qu'elle décrit. Un roman immersif, passionnant et émouvant !!!

Un roman fascinant sur la condition des femmes en Afghanistan ! A travers le regard de Zeba et de son avocat, Yusef, l'autrice décrit une société encore régie par les croyances et les traditions, au détriment des lois, et surtout des femmes ... Un destin de femme, et de mère, bouleversant !!!

Les personnages, Fereiba et Salim sont attachants et terriblement humains ! Ils nous racontent une vérité qui frappe notre monde de plein fouet depuis quelques années... Un roman fort et intense, réaliste et révoltant !

Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-great grandmother, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way. Crisscrossing in time, The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive...