El mundo de las parejas perdidas

A bored princess decides to sit and knit, and she likes it so much that she knits, for days and days, a very long scarf that surrounds the entire kingdom.

'Come, Jameela. Stand right here. I need to do something.' I grab hold of his sleeve. 'Where are you going?' His face is twisted. He doesn't look at me. 'Never mind.' Jameela lives with her family in a war-torn village in Afghanistan. Life is hard, but when her mother dies, and her father remarries, Jameela has to face a greater horror. To survive she draws on the strong sense of self that her mother gave her. Based on a real girl called Sameela, and a real orphanage, this unforgettable novel tells the story of a devout Muslim girl and what life is really like in post-Taliban Afghanistan....

¿Puede una niña morder zapatos, cavar hoyos y comer huesitos? ¿Te gustaría averiguarlo? Acompaña a Olimpia en su peludo y juguetón sueño de ser perrito. ...Y a ti, ¿te gustaría ser uno de ellos?

Olivia es una niña normal: tiene una madre actriz, un hermano miedoso, unas amigas un poco tiquismiquis y un piso con orientación sur. Pero un día, todo se desmorona. Hay terremotos que no se oyen pero arrasan con todo igualmente. Lo bueno es que siempre habrá una mano amiga para ayudarte a salir de entre los escombros.