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The Pakistani Bride: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 93171
Media: Paperback
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1571310630
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781571310637
ASIN: 1571310630
Publication Date: January 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Withdrawn stamped on first inside page. small black mark on cover. some shelf and reader wear.
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Product Description
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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 new title, old book March 7, 2008
GILBERT VAUGHAN (wayne, nebraska)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
A GOOD READ March 31, 2008
Lamoine E. Dionne
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
 Great fiction with just enough amount of history! July 14, 2008
The One Eyed Turtle (East Windsor, New Jersey United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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