The Lovers

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Weight 0.3 kg
Dimensions 2.8 × 12.8 × 19.6 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

400

Publisher

Year Published

2017-1-26

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1473607027

About The Author

Rod Nordland is currently a correspondent-at-large for The New York Times, working throughout the Middle East and South Asia; he spent more than three years as the paper's bureau chief in Kabul. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in the US, was a Pulitzer Finalist for International Reporting, studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and has received many honors including two George Polk awards and half a dozen Overseas Press Club awards. Nordland has worked for three decades as a foreign correspondent in over 150 countries. When not in Kabul, his second home is London.

With keen and nuanced insight, Nordland details the tortuous road that Zakia and Ali travelled…Nordland became the pair's chronicler and, later, their unofficial protector when, straining the limits of his professional involvement with them, he began to help the pair financially. Meticulously reported and written, Nordland's book is an exceptionally well-delineated glimpse into the marriage practices of a closed patriarchal society and the suffering it has caused women. The author thoughtfully considers the extent to which the West, acting from the outside, can effect social reform in Muslim fundamentalist cultures. A provocative, well-told story of love at all costs and an incisive examination of the continued violation of women's rights in Afghanistan.

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A story of forbidden love. Zakia and Mohammad Ali are a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Two young Afghan lovers – he a Shia, she a Sunni – who defied their families risking their lives in order to be together.

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"She is his Juliet and he is her Romeo, and her family has threatened to kill them both…" The Lovers is the heartrending account of Zakia and Mohammad Ali, a couple from opposing Islamic sects, who defying their society's norms have left behind everything they know and are quite literally risking their lives for their love. Chronicling the plight of the young lovers, New York Times journalist, Rod Nordland tells their extraordinary story of courage, perseverance and love in one of the world's most troubled countries told against the bigger backdrop of the horrific but widespread practices that women are subjected to in Afghanistan.