{"product_id":"under-the-sky-beneath-the-moon","title":"Under the Sky Beneath the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eDarya, an educated young woman in Kabul, navigates her way through the male-dominated demands of work in a corporate sales office when her comfort and confidence are shattered by a series of encounters with strangers—not all of them human. Drawing on Afghan vernacular tales of spirits and hauntings, Mozhgan Mahjoob gives us a realistic account of life in present-day Afghanistan by showing how the natural has become the supernatural, and how the forces that frame and constrict the lives of women partake of powers human and extra-human. It is a world of miracles, blessings as well as curses, that can live inside a painting or haunt a hotel room, or simply come walking up to meet us and speak through the mouth of an orphan child or a mother whose daughter was kidnapped and killed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese sixteen linked stories take readers deep into the labyrinth of a richly spiritual, harshly punitive culture that sequesters and hides the feminine spirit that it also reveres. Darya's struggles as a professional woman, many of whose friends and neighbors suffer terrible poverty and want, reveal an ancient culture in the throes of modernity, a place where the deepest fault lines of Western imperialism and global capitalism have split wide open on meeting the intractable rock of a thousands-of-years-old Afghan culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnder the Sky Beneath the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is the first title issued under \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/thegoatpol.org\/published_books\/\"\u003eThe GOAT PoL Books\u003c\/a\u003e imprint, a part of the online publishing project called \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/thegoatpol.org\"\u003eThe GOAT PoL\u003c\/a\u003e. Learn more about it \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/thegoatpol.org\/about\/\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publication Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358001176916,"sku":"A8B-33557","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/underthsky.jpg?v=1790813769","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/under-the-sky-beneath-the-moon","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}