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Summary of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi | Includes Analysis Preview: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Afghan American novelist Nadia Hashimi tells an intergenerational story of two Afghan women whose lives are different but connected. Rahima, a teenage girl, lives in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. In the wake of Taliban rule, Afghanistan's government is divided and the culture is fractured. Shekiba, Rahima's great-great-grandmother, lives in early twentieth-century Afghanistan, under a monarchy. The plot moves back and forth between the two characters, chronicling their lives and the obstacles they face under oppressive patriarchal regimes. Rahima lives in a small village with her parents, her older sisters Shahla and Parwin, the latter born with a bad hip and a limp, and her younger sisters Rohila and Sitara. Her aunt, Khala Shaima, visits often, helps take care of the family, and tells the girls stories about their great-great-grandmother Shekiba. Rahima's PLEASE NOTE: This is summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell: Summary of the Book Important People Character Analysis Analysis of the Themes and Author's Style About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Review of the Instaread Summaries Kindle eBook (2016)
This is the first time that I've used one of the Instaread summaries in order to get an overview of a book that I'm reading. I am about halfway through The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (2015) [480 pages] but as I'm reading it for a bookclub in early November 2022 it is likely that I won't finish it in time for the discussion. So just in case, I took this cheater's route. The summary was actually quite excellent and the listing of characters & the discussion of themes were also well done.
Part of the reason for my slow progress through The Pearl... is that it is often grim reading about the treatment of women in Afghanistan. It toggles between two stories, that of Rahimi in 2007 who lives in a community under a warlord who is fighting the Taliban and that of her great-great-grandmother Shekiba who lived in the early 20th century during the time when Afghanistan was ruled by a King (or Emir). Both women do have times of relative freedom allowed them through custom. The young Rahimi is allowed to assume the character of a pasha boch, where a girl child is allowed to act as if she is a boy in a family which otherwise has no sons. This ends as she enters puberty though and is sold off as a child bride. The young Shekiba was disfigured in a childhood accident and lost her family in a cholera epidemic. She becomes a servant in the compound of her family but is gifted away in payment of a debt and then again gifted to the King. She then becomes a guard to the King's harem and is allowed to dress in masculine clothes for the role, as the King doesn't trust having male guards in that role. This relief is short-lived as both face various abuses and intrigues in their stories.
Knowing the ending of the book does at least let me know that both stories end on a relative note of hope. Admittedly the current situation in a newly Taliban run Afghanistan still makes for a depressing awareness that conditions have likely become even worse in the present day. (