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<p><P>Back in Karachi for his father's funeral, Daanish, a young Pakistani changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by Dia, a fiercely independent heiress to a silk factory in the countryside. Their illicit affair will forever rupture two households and three families, destroying a stable present built on the repression of a bloody past.<P>In this sweeping novel of modern Pakistan, Uzma Aslam Khan takes us 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&#151;stinking, crumbling, and corrupt.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Khan limns the conflicts between modern Western and traditional Pakistani mores in an intelligent, ambitious novel (her first to be published in the U.S.) about two star-crossed young lovers in contemporary Karachi. Daanish, a journalism student in "Amreeka," as his aunt calls it, returns home to Karachi for the funeral of his beloved father, a prominent, forward-thinking doctor. He catches the eye of a comely Karachi student, Nini, with whom his traditional mother would like him to make an advantageous

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Author

Uzma Aslam Khan

Publisher

Picador] : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312423551

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.42 / 5 (309 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14