Silk Tether: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Khan, Minal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1631580701 ISBN 13 : 9781631580703

Editeur : Yucca, 2016

Synopsis

This is the real world of modern Karachi as seen through the eyes of a young woman in an elite family. Here are the hidden dramatic realities of the upper class, the undertow of religion, revealing the truth sometimes spoken in hushed whispers, more often swept away by the flourish of silk saris at extravagant dinner parties . . . or perhaps never mentioned at all.

Often tragic, always youthful, yet never what those in the West expect, here in fully realized first-person prose are the lives of Ayla, the protagonist, and her boundaries and customs, as well as those of her friends: Alia, oppressed by her wealthy, overly conservative parents, and Tanzeela, a teenager trapped in an abusive arranged marriage. From silk saris to bombings; from fundamentalism to American sympathy; from Dior makeup to desperate poverty; from sexual abuse to religious taboos, the world of Ayla, in her late teens, struggling in the real world of modern-day Pakistan, is anything but simple.

Silk Tether is a revealing, truthful, poignant novel destined to become a must-read by westerners seeking to understand the complex world of Islamic fundamentalist countries.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Minal Khan is a writer and attorney who was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She earned her degree in economics at Cornell University, where she was managing editor of the Cornell Progressive, and then went on to obtain a law degree at the University of California, Davis. In 2005, Khan received the Presidential Award for English Literature. She resides and practices law in Northern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yucca
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631580701
• ISBN 13: 9781631580703
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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