The fictionalized testimony of the suffering and hope of the women of the author’s Afghan family. Some women who with their daily struggle, and the intention to break with conventions, show an admirable strength.
El Somni de la Mirabel
SYNOPSIS
“She would open her enormous and brilliant eyes wide and tell me that FREEDOM was to fly like a bird, touching the clouds or gliding over a lake, deciding at each moment where you want to go. What freedom could also be a forest of tall trees where we could live in peace, without anyone hurting us or forcing us to do jobs we don’t want to do for nothing.”
El secret del meu turbant
Nadia is only eight years old but her childhood is over. A bomb has destroyed her house and with it her life, her face and the wealthy economic situation in which she lived. A girl who at the age of ten decides to change the white veil for the turban, adopt the identity of her dead brother and work tirelessly for the survival of her family.
SYNOPSIS
This is the story of Nadia Ghulam, an Afghan girl who, at just eight years old, suffered severe injuries to her body and face when a bomb destroyed her family’s home. Two years later, when he finally leaves the hospital, the Taliban regime has established itself in Afghanistan and it is then that he makes a radical decision: he will dress as a boy and, for ten years, will pose as a man in order to contribute a salary. at home, as the new government has prohibited women from working outside the home. This is the true story of Nadia, a girl who fought for her freedom.
Contes que em van curar
Afghan traditional stories explained by the protagonist of the secret of my turban.
SYNOPSIS
«I have not seen them anymore, the landscapes of the stories, but they still exist in my fantasy. When I was born, my country had already been at war for fourteen years. Neither deer, nor foxes, nor forests I have seen in my environment. Everything is scorched earth. But perhaps mother’s stories were her way of explaining to me what my country was like, my landscape, before the desolation… She made me learn the history of my town, destroyed and lost, without books. Those stories are always present to me. They keep me company, especially now that I am far from my country. Thanks to the stories, when I feel lost, I see the light of the cabin in the woods there in the distance. It is the emotional dimension of my identity”.
BUT NA BUT… this was and she was not a girl with a body wounded by the war but with the energy of a huge heart fed by the stories of her mother. For the first time, the oral stories of a country that, like Nadia, has changed its identity but has not lost its essence, are transferred to paper. A gift for Catalan readers, who have welcomed this strong and courageous woman in her land.
El Llenyataire de Kabul
SYNOPSIS
“El Llenyataire de Kabul” is an illustrated children’s story that aims to reflect on the importance of friendship. Through the customs and culture of Afghanistan, and the friendship between a bear and a woodcutter, the little ones (and those of us who are not so little) learn that sometimes heart wounds hurt more than one removes or once.
Somiant la pau
August 2021. The Afghan storyteller and activist Nadia Ghulam, seeing the Taliban advance through Afghanistan, begins to move desperately to help her own.
SYNOPSIS
These pages were born after conversations between Nadia and the journalist Ariadna Oltra, in which they talked about how she and her relatives have lived this last year, what she had to do to get part of her family to come to Spain and what they are experiencing in Kabul those who have not been able to leave. The story of a few and yet the reality of thousands of Afghan families and other parts of the world.
That August, the media bombarded us with shocking images of men falling from a plane while desperately trying to flee the occupation. After months, nobody talks to us about what is happening there, nor about how the people who were able to flee and who have been received in different parts of the planet are doing.
El País dels ocells sense ales
“This very particular story talks about people who flee to have a safe house and place. I started writing it in Lesbos, in 2019, and I dedicate it to its refugees, to my country, to the most vulnerable children and to all the people who, over and over again, must fight to grow their wings, to be able to fly and find a nest”. Nadia Ghulam.
Little Bibí is a wingless bird who lives happily with her family in a country of wingless birds. But one day hundreds of different birds appear in the sky and life changes for all the wingless birds and their country.
A beautiful metaphor about war and refugees.
La primera estrella del vespre
SYNOPSIS
The return to her native Afghanistan, where Nadia intends to find her cousin Mersal and pay homage to her deceased aunt, will become the discovery of the hidden history of the women in her family, as well as her roots and herself as a woman. .
The first star of the night is a story of searches, family discoveries, questions that had remained unanswered and, above all, a story that narrates the reality that women live in societies so far from ours: how they overcome adversity and they do not sit idly by in the face of a supposed unalterable destiny.
Unforgettable, intense, sincere and emotional, this is a story that will instinctively immerse the reader in the day-to-day life of Afghan society, in the life and feelings of these fighting and brave women, and in the adventures of the protagonist. , Nadia Ghulam. A story that fills us with hope and leaves a mark.
