# Born Under a Million Shadows

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- Book: [Born Under a Million Shadows](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrea-busfield/born-under-a-million-shadows) ([Born Under a Million Shadows.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrea-busfield/born-under-a-million-shadows.md))
- Authors: [Andrea Busfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrea-busfield)
- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0908-090-9
- Published: 2009-04-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

For fans of THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hossein and Yasmin Khadra's THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL, a devastating tale of forbidden love between an Englishwoman and a Kabul warlord. The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. Then Mariya finds a position as housekeeper for a charismatic western woman, Georgie, and Fawad dares to hope for an end to their struggle. He soon discovers that his beloved Georgie is caught up in a dangerous love affair with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan, a legendary name on the streets of Kabul. At first resentful of Haji Khan's presence, Fawad learns that love can move a man to act in surprising ways, and an overwhelming act of generosity persuades him of the warlord's good intentions. But even a man as influential as Haji Khan can't protect Fawad from the next tragedy to blight his young life, a tragedy so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing Fawad thought he could never lose: his love for his country.