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The Pakistani Bride: A Novel

The Pakistani Bride: A Novel
By Bapsi Sidhwa

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As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, Qasim makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. As the years pass, Qasim grows nostalgic about his life in the mountains while his hopelessly romantic teenage daughter, Zaitoon, imagines Qasim's homeland as a region of tall, kindly men who roam the Himalayas like gods. Impulsively, Qasim promises his daughter in marriage to a tribesman, but Zaitoon's fantasy soon becomes a grim reality of unquestioning obedience and unending labor. Bapsi Sidhwa’s acclaimed first novel is a robust, richly plotted story of colliding worlds straddled by a spirited girl for whom escape may not be an option.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #139369 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-01-22
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 248 pages

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'...at a breathless pace [Sidhwa] weaves her exotic cliffhanger from passion, power, lust, sensuality, cruelty and murder.' -- Financial Times

'Bapsi Sidhwa is a powerful and dramatic novelist who knows how to flesh out a story.' -- London Times

'Sidhwa writes with the same vivacity that made the author's first novel, 'The Crow Eaters' so memorable.' -- Telegraph

Customer Reviews

Great fiction with just enough amount of history!5
Bapsi Sidhwa is an extraordinary writer. She seems to capture the essence of culture and tradition within Pakistan.
The characters are well formed and the author follows this journey quite well with a mesh of "why" for the unanswered cultural questions.
This is a part of the world that evokes great ambivalence for me the reader, because I want to criticize the abuse of women and can't seem to understand why they don't run away. Sidhwa anticipates this feeling and tries to resolve it in her novel.

A GOOD READ4
I found this book slow to start, but it picked up nicely after. Considering it was the author's first book, it was quite good. I wasn't fond of the ending, but, that is personal preferance. I liked it better as I went along.

new title, old book3
I bought this book thinking it was a new novel by Sidhwa, but it was a new title for THE BRIDE, which I already own. It will make a nice gift I guess.