Description
Back in Karachi for his father's funeral, Daanish, a young Pakistani changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by Dia, a fiercely independent heiress to a silk factory in the countryside. Their illicit affair will forever rupture two households and three families, destroying a stable present built on the repression of a bloody past.
In this sweeping novel of modern Pakistan, Uzma Aslam Khan takes us from the stifling demands of tradition and family to the daily oppression of routine political violence, from the gorgeous sensual vistas of the silk farms to the teeming streets of Karachi--stinking, crumbling, and corrupt.Author: Uzma Aslam Khan
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 11/12/2005
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780312423551
ISBN10: 0312423551
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Pakistan
About the Author
Uzma Aslam Khan grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and has lived in New York and Arizona. She lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
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