A House Without Windows
- Author: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrator: Susan Nezami
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 31:19:26
Synopsis
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.
For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal’s family is sure she did, and demands justice.
Barely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed. As Zeba awaits trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have also led them to these bleak cells: thirty-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an honor killing; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, who ran away from home with her teenage sister but now stays in the prison because it is safe shelter; and nineteen-year-old Mezhgan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting for her lover’s family to ask for her hand in marriage. Is Zeba a cold-blooded killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, as they have been, for breaking some social rule? For these women, the prison is both a haven and a punishment. Removed from the harsh and unforgiving world outside, they form a lively and indelible sisterhood.
Into this closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba’s Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer, whose commitment to human rights and desire to help his motherland have brought him back. With the fate of this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands, Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines.
A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, A House Without Windows is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant.
Chapters
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001 A House Without Windows
Duration: 34s -
002 Prologue
Duration: 03min -
003 Chapter 01
Duration: 08min -
004 Chapter 02
Duration: 27min -
005 Chapter 03
Duration: 12min -
006 Chapter 04
Duration: 22min -
007 Chapter 05
Duration: 20min -
008 Chapter 06
Duration: 28min -
009 Chapter 07
Duration: 18min -
010 Chapter 08
Duration: 10min -
011 Chapter 09
Duration: 19min -
012 Chapter 10
Duration: 17min -
013 Chapter 11
Duration: 11min -
014 Chapter 12
Duration: 21min -
015 Chapter 13
Duration: 16min -
016 Chapter 14
Duration: 11min -
017 Chapter 15
Duration: 14min -
018 Chapter 16
Duration: 28min -
019 Chapter 17
Duration: 13min -
020 Chapter 18
Duration: 26min