Rasheed is a widowed shoemaker whose first wife and son died many years before his marriage to 15-year-old Mariam. Conservative and willful.

Rasheed. Mariam and Laila's husband and Zalmai's father. Rasheed is much older than both of his wives. Quick to anger, violent, and hungry for power ...

During her long marriage to Rasheed, Mariam's inability to have children turns her into a resentful, bitter, and fearful woman. This helps her understand her ...

Before marrying Mariam, he had already been married once before, but his wife and son had died—his son drowned while Rasheed was drunk and passed out. He is ...

Mariam, an illegitimate teenager from Herat, is forced to marry a shoemaker from Kabul after a family tragedy. Laila, born a generation later, lives a ...

2 окт. 2023 г. · Rasheed is Jalil's friend and Mariam's husband. He is a huge man who owns a shoe repair shop, and he is significantly older than Mariam. Rasheed ...

1 нояб. 2024 г. · Unable to stay with Jalil, Mariam is arranged to be married to Rasheed, a widower from Kabul who is nearly 30 years her senior. Mariam begs ...

17 июн. 2022 г. · Fifteen-year-old Mariam, the cast-off bastard child of a rich father, is forced to leave her rural home after her mother's suicide and marry a middle-aged ...

She grows up in a small hut several kilometers outside the city with her mother, Nana, before being married off at the age of fifteen to Rasheed and moving to ...