num_pages: 288
description: The U.S. literary debut of an up-and-coming Pakistani essayist and novelist This novel revolves around the last three months of Benazir Bhotto's life -- from her arrival back in Pakistan in October of 2007 to her death in a suicide bombing on December 27th -- as told through the eyes of Ali a young journalist who is the estranged son of a wealthy landowner.The contemporary narrative has flashbacks to the history of Ali's feudal family Sufi mystics a warrior clan and the history of outside British and American interference.With Bhutto serving as the centerpiece of the deadly turmoil Bina Shah reveals the many contradictions of a country that is struggling to enter into modernity.A Season for Martyrs is her US debut and we have lightning in a bottle with this very very talented novelist and journalist.
language: None
title: A Season for Martyrs
publisher: Delphinium