Perhaps I'm the wrong audience for this book. Perhaps it was a bad translation. Perhaps I'm just in a really bad mood. But I really, really did not enjoy this book. This is a book about civic turmoil in 1940's Lahore as it transitions from India to Pakistan, from the perspective of a little girl....
Marriage. Death. Attempted murder. Arson. Insurance fraud. Religion. Family strife. These are just a few of the elements that comprise the rollicking multigenerational family saga of Bapsi Sidhwa’s 1978 Pakistani novel “The Crow Eaters.” The story—equal parts moving, entertaining, bawdy, ...
A novel by the author of Ice-Candy-Man Zaitoon, a new bride, is desperately unhappy in her marriage and is contemplating the ultimate escape??"the one from which there is no return. Zaitoon, an orphan, is adopted by Qasim, who has left the isolated hill town where he was born and made a home for ...
The title of this book was as misleading as the fact that a renowned writer must appeal to everyone. For starters perhaps I read this book a few decades later because as a young Pakistani I do not think that given the background of the protagonist, the freedom should have been that "eye-opening"....
She anxiously scanned the row of waiting faces in the arrivals lounge and, the anticipatory smile on her lips fluttering, felt her eyes begin to smart. The fear that had lurked unacknowledged in her subconscious during the flight now leapt into her mind like a bolting horse: Nav was not there to ...