A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone: Shahana, a young girl living in war-torn Kashmir.
"The story that Shahana tells is based on 'The tale of a king' in the 1923 volume of 'Hatim's tales: Kashmiri stories and songs' by Sir Aurel Stein (New Delhi: Gyan Books, 1989)"--Acknowledgements (page 206).