The shine of the stars

The story of a young woman trying to make peace between the past and the present and between herself and the world. How was Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion? And how did it become afterward? What trapped it in war for many decades? It is a pivotal moment in April 1978, and this novel narrates the details of that moment, a moment from Afghanistan's history and how the Cold War's arms extended to it. "That night, giants' heads were cut off, and the desolate voids swallowed everything that was once familiar. But the terrified little girl will not give up. She will be brave; her father taught her that the entire world is inside her; her bones are as hard as mountains, her veins overflow with rivers, and her heartbeat carries the rhythm of thousands of hooves, while her eyes sparkle with the glow of the stars. I am this girl, and this is my story."