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9781571310637
The Pakistani Bride
by Sidhwa, Bapsi
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- ISBN-13: 9781571310637
- ISBN: 1571310630
- Publication Date: 2008
- Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, Qasim makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. As the years pass, Qasim grows nostalgic about his life in the mountains while his hopelessly romantic teenage daughter, Zaitoon, imagines Qasim's homeland as a region of tall, kindly men who roam the Himalayas like gods. Impulsively, Qasim promises his daughter in marriage to a tribesman, but Zaitoon's fantasy soon becomes a grim reality of unquestioning obedience and unending labor. Bapsi Sidhwa's acclaimed first novel is a robust, richly plotted story of colliding worlds straddled by a spirited girl for whom escape may not be an option.Sidhwa, Bapsi is the author of 'The Pakistani Bride', published 2008 under ISBN 9781571310637 and ISBN 1571310630.
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