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Original Title:	The Pakistani Bride
ISBN:	0140148116 (ISBN13: 9780140148114)
Edition Language:	English

The Pakistani Bride

Bapsi Sidhwa

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 1086 Users | 91 Reviews

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Title	:	The Pakistani Bride
Author	:	Bapsi Sidhwa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	October 14th 2000 by Penguin India (first published 1983)
Categories	:	Cultural. Pakistan. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary

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A novel by the author of Ice-Candy-Man Zaitoon, a new bride, is desperately unhappy in her marriage and is contemplating the ultimate escape??"the one from which there is no return. Zaitoon, an orphan, is adopted by Qasim, who has left the isolated hill town where he was born and made a home for the two of them in the glittering, decadent city of Lahore. As the years pass, Qasim makes a fortune but grows increasingly nostalgic about his life in the mountains. Impulsively, he promises Zaitoon in marriage to a man of his tribe. But for Zaitoon, giving up the civilized city life she remembers to become the bride of this hard, inscrutable husband proves traumatic to the point where she decides to run away, though she knows that by the tribal code the punishment for such an act is death. ???Sidhwa shows a marvellous feel for imagery??"at a breathless pace she weaves her exotic cliffhanger from passion, power, lust, sensuality, cruelty and murder.' ??"Financial Times

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Ratings: 3.45 From 1086 Users | 91 Reviews

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After reading "Other Voices, Other Rooms" I realized how little Pakistani fiction I had read, and what relatively little is available to Western readers. I was looking something covering a wider swath of the country written through the eyes of a Pakistani. This book fit that bill. During the Partition in 1947, Qasim, who has lost his wife and children joins refugees fleeing India for Pakistan. In the confusion of a train wreck, he comes across 5-year-old Zaitoon, who has hopelessly become

'The Pakistani Bride is a story of a girl named Zaitoon, who lost her parents in a very early age during Partition, and was adopted by a tribesman Qasim. They both start living with Nikka and his wife Miriam in Lahore. Since Qasim belongs from hills, living in plains is not at all easy for him. Increasingly getting nostalgic about his life in mountains, Qasim promises Zaitoon that he will marry her off to a boy from his own clan. But little did he realise that one decision of his would change

Her terror of wild beasts drove her to seek the even more fearful nearness of man.Its hard to write a review for a book by Bapsi Sidhwa, mainly because she holds that venerable title of the first Pakistani English female writer (and how many people can claim to be the first of anything these days?), but also because shes just so huge in the world of literature. In our part of the globe, where people treat reading as a passing fancy, Bapsi Sidhwa has dominated for years.Reading the Bride felt,

Wow! Where do I begin sharing my thoughts on this book?! There is much at play in this novel and having read reviews I almost reconsidered reading it myself. Eventually deciding against it, I was still bracing myself to read a disappointing novel. However, I'm glad I did read this or I would have surely missed out on an otherwise well-written book. While this novel is set in the years following shortly after the Partition of India and Pakistan and centred around Qasim (a Kohistanti man) and his

The book started out great and liked her writing style but hated the way the story ended. Qasim, a Khosthani tribal who lost his family and raises an orphan finally seems like a butcher taking Zaitoon as the sacrificial goat back to his home and leaving her there with strangers. Terrible !!!

I liked this book very much. Lately I have been facinated with the culture, and this books displayed a new view on the religion and cultural values. I an beginning to have a understanding and appreciation for why things are the way they are.I see that it didnt get great reviews from other goodreads members. I am not certain but I believe this book was written or published in the 80's and may have been translated based on some of the terms used.

3.5 stars.The story line was good and it had lots of potential but unfortunately, Sidhwa's prose was descriptive and short. There were no feeling put into it. This difference is noticeable if one compares Khaled Hosseini's writing to Bapsi Sidhwa's writing against the same backdrop. One hears a lot about women oppression and feminism. But what this book tries to show is nowhere near that. It is the animosity and brutality that male dominance pose before women. It is unthinkable and horrific.