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Bilqis is a recently windowed middle-aged lady in Karachi and the matriarch of her extended and fairly noble family. However, her son has emigrated to Australia and shows no signs of moving back to a country that's increasingly under the thumb of the twin repression of the military and religious fundamentalists (the book is set in 1985). She is thus forced to confront the dissolution of traditions and familial obligations that bear increasing importance as she ages alone.
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It's a book that dwells ...more
Jan 21, 2011
Saima
marked it as to-read
