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Back in Karachi for his father's funeral, Daanish, a Pakistani student changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by the gazelle-eyed girl in the traditional dupatta who appears one day at the house of mourning. But the dupatta is deceptive: Dia is the modern daughter of a mother who, as the owner of a silk farm and factory, has achieved a degree of freedom rare among Pakistani women. It will take a handful of silkworms, fattened on mulberry leaves, to bring Daanish and Dia together. But their union will forever rupture the peace of two households and three families, destroying a stable present built on the repression of a bloody past.
In this sweeping novel of modern Pakistan, Uzma Aslam Khan takes us deep into a world of radical contrasts, from the stifling demands of tradition and family to the daily oppression of routine political violence, from the gorgeous sensual vistas of the silk farms to the teeming streets of Karachi-stinking, crumbling, and corrupt.
At once delicate and passionate, Trespassing introduces a new and powerful voice from a land we know too little about.
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Uzma Aslam Khan grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and has lived in New York and Arizona. She currently lives in Lahore with her husband. Trespassing, her first novel to be published in the U.S., will appear in eleven languages.
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- EditoreMetropolitan Books
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 0805075747
- ISBN 13 9780805075748
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine433
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. First printing. A pristine unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in sturdy box. Smoke-free shop. A first novel. A difficult signature to obtain, as the author lives in Pakistan with her husband, the novelist David Maine. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo sign01
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