Fatima Bhutto's novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon is a story about the tragic lives of three brothers living in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. The novel touches the hardships people in restive provinces of Pakistan faces at the hands of Army,Taliban etc. It explores the physical, psychological and financial impact on lives of hapless civilians who are drawn into numerous unceasing insurgencies rampant in Pakistan.
The story is woven around aspirations ,hopes,deceit and betrayal .The Shadow of the Crescent Moon is a tragic tale of struggle for power,dignified life while narrates the horrible truths about the ‘war on terror’, including drone strikes and innocent casualties, in Pakistan’s tribal belt. The struggle and will of young to continue the fight against oppressor Pakistan against all odds, it dwells on the devastation caused by war,Shia-Sunni divide and fundamentalism. Truth is the story has some historical facts imbibed unknown to readers otherwise there's nothing much in the story that one would say refreshing.
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