Zara - A. Hafsah - Bog

Zara is a novel that depicts an intimate knowledge of coming of an age, love among teenagers and family life. After Zara, the protagonist who is from a very poor background has an encounter with Afrah, her life automatically takes a new turn. Her hopelessness, is turned into hope, her poverty is becoming a thing of the past and Zara is beginning to see a light at the end of tunnel until Mohammed, Afrah''s boyfriend, returns from abroad. His presence triggers a lot of restlessness in Zara's life, as she believes that the young man is shifting his affection from Afrah to her. Afrah will have known of it and believes that the only way to confront a world that has taken away her mother from her, given her father to another woman and delivered her boyfriend to a girl she picked from the slums is to commit suicide; an unexpected turn of event opens up a whole new life that hands Afrah and Zara all they think they've lost, making their fantasies their realities.