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Under the persimmon tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples · Booklabria

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Under the persimmon tree

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First published: 2005
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

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 huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
War
Refugees
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Set in: Afghanistan
Time: 20th Century; 2001-

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