
When the Moon Is Low
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Sneha Mathan
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Neil Shah
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By:
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Nadia Hashimi
About this listen
The unforgettable story of an Afghan family’s escape from the Taliban and perilous trek across Europe to seek asylum, led by one extraordinarily courageous woman. This is the second novel by Nadia Hashimi, the author of last year’s breakout The Pearl That Broke Its Shell.
Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world - a life of education, work, and comfort - implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power.
Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba has one hope to survive: She must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness. Exhausted and brokenhearted but undefeated, Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece. But in a busy market square, their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage son, Saleem, becomes separated from the rest of the family.
Faced with an impossible choice, Fereiba pushes on with her daughter and baby, while Saleem falls into the shadowy underground network of undocumented Afghans who haunt the streets of Europe’s capitals. Across the continent Fereiba and Saleem struggle to reunite and ultimately find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives.
©2015 Nadia Hashimi (P)2021 HarperCollins PublishersThe kindness of strangers and the bravery of a mother.
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brilliant and moving
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The reality of the story line
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Thea only thing I disliked, at times quite a bit, was the male narration of Saleem‘s storyline, at times it lacked the narrative poise of Fereiba‘s story. It tended to feel only ‚read‘ rather than produced, thus lacking colour and the lively depiction of Fereiba‘s character, although the written prose deserved better narration, Saleem‘s narrative was equal to his mother’s storyline, if the male counterpart had been more lively, the book would deserve three perfect 5s.
Amazingly tough reality of family fleeing Taliban rule
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the story of escape from oppression and in the case of Saleem, the boy hero.. focus, determination and some luck from an angle. Help from strangers.. at personal costs..the underworld and dangers ..
Read and listen to the book and audio and it makes us more aware the dangers for these people where only the lucky ones survive.
It is a great story.. please change the presenters.. especially the man .. he sounded like a robot.
one of the best audio books i have listened to..
a Story that must be told
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Narration was the worst I’ve ever heard. It sounded like a robot talking and at times I thought it had been done using AI it was so poor. There was no intonation at all, no emotion. After the beautiful female narration this male narration nearly ruined the book for me as it was painful to listen to but I persisted as I enjoyed the story. I would recommend reading the book rather than listening to it so you don’t have to suffer listening to this narrator and ruining the story for you.
Captivating story but poor narrantion
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Captivating, absorbing and heartbreaking.
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Being an Afghan it is particularly difficult to listen to this story. I certainly needed to take breaks when it become too much and too real.
Important side note: the voice actors are not Afghan and their pronunciation of Afghan words was god-aweful. The voice actor for Salim being the absolute worst offender. Why the producers could not make the effort of finding two Afghans to voice the story is beyond me. Nadia Hashimi had created a masterpiece and you have to listen to the most emotional parts trying to enjoy the truly terrible voice acting and pronunciation.
The most beautiful story I have ever heard
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The dreadful plight of refugees
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Enjoyable
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