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I WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH.
Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed tell the world that she is worth less than nothing -- except to her little brother, Umar, who sees beauty in her scars and value in her.
But Umar is gone -- perhaps kidnapped or maybe sold. All Nadira knows is that Umar has been taken into the desert to ride camels for rich sheiks. He could be lost to her forever.
For Umar, Nadira will risk everything. So she disguises herself as a boy and searches out the men who took him. They are not hard to find, and soon she, too, is headed to the desert to be a camel jockey.
Life in the desert is more brutal than Nadira imagined. All she has to protect her and the boys she meets are a bit of chai tea, some stories, and the hope that she has enough of both to keep going until she finds Umar.
BROKEN MOON IS A SPELLBINDING, LYRICAL TALE THAT WILL CAPTURE READERS, HEARTS AND SOULS.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 8 Up-Scarred physically and psychologically by Pakistani traditionalists who avenged her brother's alleged assault on another girl by cutting his sister's face and body, Nadira accepts that she has been ruined. Now 18, she focuses her love on her 6-year-old brother, entertaining him with stories from "A Thousand and One Nights." Her father is dead and she works as a servant in a Karachi household to support Umar and their mother, who live with cruel Uncle Rubel. When he sells Umar to kidnappers who take children to the desert to become camel jockeys, she disguises herself as a boy to follow him. In the Bedouin country she tames young bullies as well as the fastest camel, hoping to be allowed to go to the races where she might encounter her brother and win their freedom. Nadira's forbearance and skillful storytelling make her sad situation bearable, and the romantically happy ending will satisfy readers caught up in her life. The first-person account is presented as a narrative written for Umar to read at some later date. Details of Nadira's daily life are smoothly woven in, but they are not the sort of thing-descriptions of clothing and the ingredients for masala chai, for example-that would ordinarily be emphasized by a sister writing to her brother. Although this is clearly an outsider's view of life in Pakistan and on the Arab peninsula, it may entice readers to explore that world further.-Kathleen Isaacs, Towson University, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(High School) Nadira's hero is Shahrazad, teller of one thousand and one stories. But Nadira's own life is no fairy tale: when she was twelve, a group of men attacked and deliberately scarred her in retaliation for her older brother's alleged crime. The Pakistani setting may be foreign, but it's not historical: this horror coexists with televisions and computers. Now eighteen, Nadira has no hope of marriage, and her closest friend is her six-year-old brother, Umar. When he's kidnapped by slave traders, she disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates the desert camp, bringing hope to all she meets and proving her inner strength. Nadira is a strong heroine comfortable in her intellect and creativity, and her second-person narration (the book is styled as a journal she's keeping for Umar), the evocative but appropriately simple descriptions, and the frequent storytelling interludes work well within the narrative framework. But though Antieau succeeds in making a foreign society accessible, she often does so at the expense of detail and believability: the complex culture that sanctioned Nadira's brutalization is only sketchily portrayed, and Nadira appears to have survived the nightmarish experience with almost no emotional trauma. Nevertheless, Antieau presents important issues without letting them overtake the narrative, and the classic plot and sympathetic characters add up to an absorbing read. Copryight 2007 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Six years after she was scarred in a brutal attack--sanctioned by the elders of her Pakistani village as punishment in an interfamily dispute--Nadira, 18, labors as a domestic servant in Karachi, supporting her widowed mother and little brother, Umar. (The cover photo of a demure, beautifully groomed teen seems to belong to a different story.) When Umar is kidnapped, sold as a child jockey to race camels for wealthy sheikhs, Nadira vows to rescue him and, disguised as a boy, becomes a jockey herself. Slow to start, the story takes off when the action shifts to the jockey training camps but is hampered by its awkward epistolary format, which distances readers from the action and drains the narrative of suspense. Nadira is the most fleshed-out character, yet much about her remains a mystery: What is her religion? Why is the Persian A Thousand and One Nights her primary cultural referent? In a story billed as fact-based, important details are omitted: How does the trafficking system work? Who owns the jockeys? Are the camps and race tracks in or outside Pakistan? No glossary or extra-narrative explanation is provided. And although the subject matter is geared to young adults, the elementary vocabulary and simple syntax appear designed for younger readers. A well-intentioned but flawed execution of a fascinating story. (Fiction. 12-14) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Her face scarred and honor soiled after a brutal levying of village justice, Pakistani teen Nadira has little left to lose--so when slave smugglers take her younger brother, she conceals her gender and goes after him. Her destination is an illegal camp for camel kids, boys trained as jockeys in the dangerous sport of camel racing. There, she clings to the hope of reuniting with her brother while adapting, often creatively, to her terrifying new environment. Sexual violence is part of this story (the older boys attacked the smaller boys the way those men in the village attacked me, observes Nadira), and Antieau's efforts to modulate the narrative for the widest possible age range results in vague, confusing language about the incidents. Still, even readers who miss the story's bitterest nuances are likely to be propelled by sympathy for its resourceful, empowered heroine, and as in Patricia McCormick's Sold (2006), about sexual slavery for slightly older readers , its connections to real-world exploitation will leave teens outraged and moved. The absence of an endnote is unfortunate. --Jennifer Mattson Copyright 2006 Booklist