In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
SRP 2013 REVIEW: This is an amazing book - set in the First and Second Wars between Chechnya and the Russian Federation (yes, it is recent history!!). I loved the characters and the writing.