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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-063-7
Pages: 256
Publish Date: Dec, 2008
Genre: Fiction
The Pakistani Bride
BY Bapsi Sidhwa
Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, especially for women. Traveling alone from the isolated village where he was born, a tribal man takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the glittering city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, he makes his fortune and sets up a home for the two of them. Yet, as the years pass, he grows nostalgic for life in the mountains. Impulsively, the man promises his daughter in marriage to a man of his tribe, but once she arrives in the mountains, the ancient customs of unquestioning obedience and backbreaking work make accepting her fate impossible.
Bapsi Sidhwa’s first novel, about an arranged marriage in the mountainous region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this story of the conflict between adherence to tradition and the indomitable force of a woman’s spirit can now resume its rightful place as one of Bapsi Sidhwa’s most urgent and contemporary works of fiction.
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“Pakistan’s finest English-language novelist.”
—New York Times Book Review“Pakistan’s leading female author.”
—Washington Post"A powerful and dramatic novelist."
—London Times
