The Moonlit Cage: A Novel by Linda HolemanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book grabbed me from the first page. A wonderful story, brilliantly told. The character voices were so brilliantly portrayed I felt intimately involved with each character. The details were so vivid in this book, the images were clear in my mind as I read. I loved this book!
Pub. Date: March 2007
Synopsis: Daryâ’s simple life in mid-nineteenth-century Afghanistan is torn apart when a hateful curse by a jealous tribeswoman leaves her an outcast in her small Muslim village. She looks to her arranged marriage to the son of a nomadic tribal chief with hope that it will deliver her from this oppression; instead, Daryâ finds herself regularly beaten by her wrathful husband, and more isolated than she can bear. Seeing no choice other than to flee from her torment, Daryâ barely escapes through the foothills of the Hindu Kush.
Destitute and alone, Daryâ meets David Ingram, an enigmatic Englishman traveling in Afghanistan. Although he is a complete stranger, she joins him on his journey to Bombay—and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Ranging from the arid Afghan plains to the lush tropical villas of India, across mighty seas to Victorian London’s fetid streets, The Moonlit Cage is an intense and sensuous story of love, loss, and redemption.
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This book sounds interesting! Liked your review!!
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