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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780143116578
Bilqis Ara Begum, an aristocratic widow, is dismayed when her
only son, Samad, marries Kate, an Australian girl, and settles in
Melbourne rather than returning home to Pakistan, in this haunting
novel about a mother and son and the emotional consequences of
leaving home.
A haunting novel about a mother and son and the emotional
consequences of leaving home The matriarch Bilqis Khan, a widowed
university professor, is dismayed when her only son Samad marries
Kate, a white Australian woman, and settles in Melbourne rather
than returning home to Pakistan. Though Samad attempts to convince
his mother to join them in Australia, she insists on remaining in
Karachi, presiding over the family’s crumbling estate, even while
tensions in the government are mounting, making the country
progressively more dangerous. Meanwhile, Bilqis’s devoted servant
Mumtaz enters a relationship with a freedom fighter, risking her
and her family’s honor, and Bilqis realizes that it is up to her to
intervene. The intertwining stories of Bilqis, Samad, and Mumtaz
offer a powerful and nuanced portrait of Pakistan in the modern
era. Azhar Abidi’s precise and elegant prose illuminates the
struggle between a mother and son to reconcile their love for one
another with their love for the places they call home.
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