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Fear of Beauty

Autor Susan Froetschel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2013

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The battered body of an Afghan boy is found at the base of a cliff outside a remote village in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Did he fall as most of the villagers think? Or is this the work of American soldiers, as others want to believe? Not far from the village, the US Army has set up a training outpost. Sofi, the boy's illiterate young mother, is desperate to find the truth about her son's death. But extremists move in and offer to roust the "infidels" from the region, adding new pressures and restrictions for the small village and its women. We hear two sides of this story. One is Sofi's. The other is that of US Army Special Ranger Joey Pearson, who is in this faraway place to escape a rough childhood and rigidly fundamentalist parents. In time, and defying all odds, Sofi secretly learns to read-with the help of Mita Samuelson, an American aid worker. Through reading, the Afghan woman develops her own interpretation of how to live the good life while discovering the identity of her son's murderer and the extremists' real purpose in her village.  As they search for answers, Sofi, Joey, and Mita come to the same realization: in each of their separate cultures the urge to preserve a way of life can lead to a fundamentalism that destroys a society's basic values.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781616147020
ISBN-10: 1616147024
Pagini: 301
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Seventh Street Books

Notă biografică

Susan Froetschel (Washington, DC) is the author of three previous mystery novels-Alaska Gray, Interruptions, Royal Escape. In addition, she has written articles for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Barron's, and many other publications. She has taught at Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University, and she is currently a consultant for YaleGlobal Online at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

Recenzii

"An exceptionally well-written tale of love, loss, trust, and greed with appeal that reaches far beyond mystery fans." -Publishers Weekly

"Susan Froetschel makes the Afghanistan conflict real on a personal level, in a tale rich with thought-provoking themes. . . . Fear of Beauty is a wonderful novel." -Sandra Parshall, Agatha Award-winning author of Bleeding Through

"Froetschel is a superb storyteller. She brings the rugged beauty of Afghanistan, its simple folk, and its many dangers together in a spine-tingling tale." -Nayan Chanda, author of Bound Together"

Descriere

An Afghan woman defies her husband and societal pressures to investigate the death of her son. The battered body of an Afghan boy is found at the base of a cliff in Afghanistan. Did he fall as most of the villagers think? Or is this the work of American soldiers, as others want to believe?

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