The Convert: A Tale Of Exile And Extremism - Plot & Excerpts
In it she proposed to answer all her parents’ questions. To do this properly she would have to start at the beginning and tell Herbert and Myra what had really happened upon her arrival in Pakistan. In the light of these subsequent revelations, she would then revisit her stay in the Mawlana’s house and the circumstances of her move to Pattoki. She would tell the whole story of how she ended up at the madhouse and what was now in store for her. Everything would be explained.I found something amiss in the fact that Margaret felt free to write frankly about her life in Pakistan only once she was certain of leaving the Paagal Khanaah, as if she had first to wait and see how her fate would be decided. What had happened during those five months when there were no letters from Pattoki? Was she loath to concede that her parents might have been right about the treatment of women in Muslim countries? Perhaps she had simply been bullied into writing this new letter in exchange for freedom. Perhaps the letter was a closely supervised exercise in self-criticism.But of course Maryam’s arrival in Lahore is not actually where her story begins.
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