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Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she's dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family's honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart?

回教女孩在男性文化宰制下，無論屈服與不屈服都是一樣的命運，在一個無奈家族中，一位被約制文化吞噬的父親，超脫不了沙漠傳統習俗，交織成一則此處才有的故事。莎芭努這個生長在沙漠中的女孩，有著異常的早熟，就像熱帶地區的植物經過催熟似的，在成長的過程中充滿了自覺和自由的渴望。《風的女兒》的內容和故事背景，可以提供青春成長的孩子一個機會，去探索和理解異族文化的懸隔，以及為了生存，生命中有許多斷然、蠻橫和劫掠的部分，也因為在蠻橫的沙漠中成長，令人格外覺得生命中的尊重與平等原來是需要經過極大的創裂才能慢慢完成。