Hesmat's escape

Gripping, moving, and thought-provoking: Escape from Afghanistan. His mother has died, his father has been killed: Hesmat has no choice but to flee Afghanistan. He travels on foot over the Hindu Kush, then takes a train to Moscow and from there heads west. He repeatedly ends up in prisons, is robbed, tortured, and mistreated. Sometimes he is on the verge of giving up. But the dream of a better life keeps him going. Wolfgang Böhmer's novel about the escape of an Afghan boy is based on a true story. The book includes a map and a timeline of the Afghan conflict.