2007, ISBN: 0552774456

[EAN: 9780552774451], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Black Swan, London], SISTERS -- ENGLAND LONDON FICTION, BANGLADESH MUSLIM WOMEN WOMEN, SISTERS, BANGLADESH,, 502 pages. 510 pages ; 20… More...

[EAN: 9780552774451], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Black Swan, London], SISTERS -- ENGLAND LONDON FICTION, BANGLADESH MUSLIM WOMEN WOMEN, SISTERS, BANGLADESH,, 502 pages. 510 pages ; 20 cm Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Ban gladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her l ife in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years , keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected o f her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daught ers' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib. 'I didn't ask to be born her e, ' says Shahana, with regular finality. Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belong ing; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own ; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze - but what she sees, in the end, comes as a surprise to them both. While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother' s ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong a t her life, first making a 'love marriage', then fleeing her viol ent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped - yet ultimate ly not bound - by their landscapes and memories, both sisters str uggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them. B eautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2003, Books<

2007, ISBN: 9780552774451

London: Black Swan. Good. 126 x 197 x 32mm. Paperback. 2007. 502 pages. <br>510 pages ; 20 cm Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud… More...

London: Black Swan. Good. 126 x 197 x 32mm. Paperback. 2007. 502 pages. <br>510 pages ; 20 cm Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Ban gladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her l ife in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years , keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected o f her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daught ers' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib. 'I didn't ask to be born her e, ' says Shahana, with regular finality. Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belong ing; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own ; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze - but what she sees, in the end, comes as a surprise to them both. While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother' s ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong a t her life, first making a 'love marriage', then fleeing her viol ent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped - yet ultimate ly not bound - by their landscapes and memories, both sisters str uggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them. B eautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2003 ., Black Swan, 2007, 2.5<

2007, ISBN: 9780552774451

Mass-market paperback, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, 2007. Film Tie-in edition. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear.....We ship daily from our warehouse., [PU: Black Swan]

ISBN: 9780552774451

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5