The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet Food Processor "Racks" Halvorsen struggles to put

"Racks" Halvorsen struggles to put his life back together

Beneath the self-justifying rhetoric of benevolent paternalism and cultural superiority lay economic exploitation and the desire for power

traditions

all they have to go on is blind faith

grandmaster of science fiction and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet Food Processor "Racks" Halvorsen struggles to putA riveting, real life equivalent of The Kite Runneran astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about womens rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated,