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.
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.
Bapsi Sidhwa
Author's Bio:Born in Karachi and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, Bapsi Sidhwa has been widely celebrated as the finest novelist produced by her country. She is the author of several novels, including The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, Cracking India, and, most recently, Water, which received the 2007 Premio Mondello in Italy. Among her many honors, Sidhwa has received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest honor in the arts. She lives in Houston.
Quotes:“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
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Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 349
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Size: 5 x 8
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781571310637
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