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Find out what you should be reading right now every week with our books email newsletter. Listen to when the moon is low by nadia hashimi at. Bookdragon is a new media initiative of the smithsonian asian pacific american center apac, and serves as a forum for those interested in learning more about the asian pacific american experience through literature. But their happy, middleclass world a life of education, work, and comfortimplodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the taliban rises to power. The pearl that broke its shell a novel also available in format docx and mobi. Hashimi is the author of three international bestselling novels, the pearl that broke its shell, when the moon is low, and a house without windows.
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