The lovers / Nordland, Rod

Presents the true story of Zakia and Ali, who grew up as close friends on neighboring potato farms in the mountain province of Bamiyan. As they grew up they fell in love, and as Afghan and Islamic law forbade them marriage, they decided to elope. In the process they met American journalist Rod Nordland, who wrote about their story and accidentally exposed them to their family members, who vowed to hunt Zakia down and conduct an honor killing on her. Zakia escaped and gave birth to a daughter, Ruqia, but Ali was captured and forced to return and live in Afghanistan. However, both still hope to escape the country and live together.

"Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor"--Amazon.