Born Under a Million Shadows

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Copyright © 2009 by Andrea Busfield

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Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2009 by

Black Swan, an imprint of Transworld Publishers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Busfield, Andrea.

Born under a million shadows : a novel / Andrea Busfield.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-0-8050-9061-1

1. Boys—Afghanistan—Fiction. 2. Kabul (Afghanistan)—Fiction.

I. Title.

PR6102.U785B67 2009

823’.92—dc22

2008055287

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