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The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

by Fatima Bhutto

"One morning. Three brothers. Three different Pakistans."

Over a single Eid morning in a town on the Afghan border, three brothers take three divergent paths — obedience, medicine, rebellion — in Bhutto's taut debut about a generation caught between loyalty and survival.

Worth knowing

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

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