A House Without Windows, Nadia Hashimi
A House Without Windows, Nadia Hashimi
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A House Without Windows
A Novel

Author: Nadia Hashimi

Narrator: Ariana Delawari, Susan Nezami

Unabridged: 15 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/16/2016


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.

About Nadia Hashimi

Nadia Hashimi is a pediatrician turned international bestselling novelist and daughter of Afghan immigrants. She is the author of four books for adults, as well as the middle grade novels One Half from the East and The Sky at Our Feet. She lives with her family in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Visit her online at nadiahashimibooks.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pakinam on May 11, 2025

"ما جدوى قول المرأة الحقيقة في حين لن يُعتد به ولو لدقيقة؟ " ما جدوي شهادة المرأة و هي تعتبر نصف شهادة فقط؟ ما جدوي الكلام أصلاً في بلد لا يحظي فيه أحد بمحاكمة عادلة؟ بيت بلا نوافذ رواية لطبيبة الأطفال و الكاتبة الأمريكية من أصول أفغانية نادية هاشمي وهي الرواية الثانية التي أقرأها للكاتبة بعد رواياتها......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on April 20, 2019

This was a wonderful story of love, sacrifice and redemption. I really like the way this author writes. She really helps you understand the characters. A story of a young lawyer who wants to help the people in his home country but helping to change the way the laws are read and it has a good ending......more

Goodreads review by Meagan✨ on February 28, 2025

I’ve been meaning to read A House Without Windows for so long! I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump this month, starting and DNFing a few books. But I’m hopeful this historical fiction,(my true love) will pull me out of it.......more