Under the persimmon tree.

Title
Under the persimmon tree.

Personal Author EPSB
Suzanne Fisher. Staples

Summary
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Year Published
2008,
 
2005

Physical Description
275 p. ; 21 cm.

Note
"Frances Foster books."

Program Information
Gr. 8+

Subject
Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction.
 
Refugees -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Afghanistan -- History -- 2001- -- Fiction.
 
Peshawar (Pakistan) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Summary
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

ISBN
9780312377762

Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, c2005.


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