Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins...
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Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she's dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family's honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307977885 (0307977889)
Publish date: September 11th 2012
Publisher: Ember
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Shabanu (#1)
I'm really torn about how to rate this book. Many a time, the writing would pull me out, but just as often, the characters and story sucked me right back in. This tale of a young Pakistani girl starting to navigate what it means, in her world, to be a woman is engrossing at times, framed through the...
i had to read this book for school in sixth grade and it is so disturbing. i was scarred for life. it's a realistic but very depressing book, and i didn't really like the writing style or the characters. and it has one of those endings that leaves you feeling like life is pointless. i wouldn't recom...
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