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The Broken Circle

By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
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Summary

An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival - and of a committed and desperate family uprooted and divided by the violent, changing landscape of Afghanistan in the early 1980s.

Before the Soviet invasion of 1980, Enjeela Ahmadi remembers her home - Kabul, Afghanistan - as peaceful, prosperous, and filled with people from all walks of life. But after her mother, unsettled by growing political unrest, leaves for medical treatment in India, the civil war intensifies, changing young Enjeela’s life forever. Amid the rumble of invading Soviet tanks, Enjeela and her family are thrust into chaos and fear when it becomes clear that her mother will not be coming home. 

Thus begins an epic, reckless, and terrifying five-year journey of escape for Enjeela, her siblings, and their father to reconnect with her mother. In navigating the dangers ahead of them, and in looking back at the wilderness of her homeland, Enjeela discovers the spiritual and physical strength to find hope in the most desperate of circumstances. 

A heart-stopping memoir of a girl shaken by the brutalities of war and empowered by the will to survive, The Broken Circle brilliantly illustrates that family is not defined by the borders of a country but by the bonds of the heart.

©2019 Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Poems by Hafiz translated into English by the author.

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“Full of vivid detail and emotion, this compelling memoir captures the ache of a young child desperate for safety and security.” (Kirkus Reviews)  

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Really enjoyed this book.

I am pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I felt quite drawn into it. It wasn’t too heavy. It does make you understand a little of what the Afghanistan’s people have had to endure. Obviously this merely scrapes the surface. But it certainly taught me more than I already knew and I am always grateful to learn.

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Fascinating.

Incredible and extraordinary. Illuminating and heart wrenching to gain even an insight into the trauma, tragedy and tremendous strength and courage of refugees of war torn countries, whether people are from, what ever colour they are. The suffering is intense and the stories deserve to be heard, respected and received with equal kindness.

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A family's journey to freedom

This was such an interesting book but I have a sneaking suspicion that I would have found it harder going if I had been reading it instead of listening to it as an audio book.
A wonderful tale of escape from Kabul where the family lived in Afghanistan, to a final destination in New Delhi, India where their mother had departed to even earlier with 2 of the children as she was in bad health and in need of heart surgery. Of course once she had left, she did not return but set about making a home ready for the rest of the family when, after a gruelling escape of the children, without their father would finally come to India to be with her and their siblings.
It was years before they saw one another again. Initially, the father did not want to leave his homeland understandably, as he had a wonderful job at the embassy, beautiful home and a land he loved but after a time, especially once the Russians entered the country, he knew he had to get his children out but he knew he was being watched and so arranged for the children to be carried out with a trusted guide to Pakistan where they were to wait for him to come to them at a certain hotel. Which took 6 months of them being on their own without him.
This book is mainly the story of their journey there and on to India once their father arrives and all the trials, wonders and mishaps along the way.
An incredible tale of human endurance.

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