Breaking Links - Couverture souple

Ahmad, Razia Fasih

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195978951 ISBN 13 : 9780195978957

Editeur : OUP Pakistan, 2006

Synopsis

This is a historical and literary novel that revolves around characters originating in West and East Pakistan who love each other and marry, but their marriage is deeply affected by the violence that overtakes the country and the ultimate dismemberment of Pakistan. This coming apart is the centre of this novel. The author has built her story around the looming crisis and the final hour of disintegration and dissolution. A compelling tale of love gone awry through a grievous sense of 'honor' reaching out across generations, this is a novel dealing with 'History with a capital H.' a basic contextualization of this book within this history may be useful for its non-Pakistani readers, but even within the country, younger readers especially need to be reminded of what ensued, since Pakistan has not effectively addressed nor come to terms with the forces and factors which created an irreconcilable chasm and subsequently, the cataclysmic events terminating in the country's break-up as well as the emergence of Bangladesh as a sovereign state. Such an assessment is still conspicuous by its absence in the country's curriculum and some textbooks that ascribe to the ever-popular and ubiquitous 'conspiracy' theory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The author is very well known in Pakistani/Urdu literature. She has several publications to her credit and has received national prizes for her work including the Writer's Guild Prize for best short story and the Adamjee Prize for literature for her novel 'Abla Pa' (urdu).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP Pakistan
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195978951
• ISBN 13: 9780195978957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie