num_pages: 192
description: East Pakistan 1968: In Sariyahs village shame is a virtue she never mastered. As a child she learned to read in secret kept talismans against her fathers orders and questioned everything even Allah. Now she is practicing how to be a woman with shame torn between promises to her family and to herself. She yearns to join a movement with her fellow Bengalis who are gripping onto their language and cultural identity against colonial powers  but she is continuously sucked into the narrow visions of her father.In the midst of a desperate movement for Bengali freedom a presumptuous American has come to teach English. Rodney Creed - self-interested naive entitled - comes with the bright optimism of a college graduate too eager to sense the rumbling ground beneath him...until he meets Sariyah. Rodney believes he is there to teach but he will learn painful irreversible things.Without Shame is a love story at its core  but not in the traditional sense. Its about love of ones country culture God and language. Its about the power of identity to shine through when other forces threaten to overshadow it.
language: English
title: Without Shame
publisher: FB Partners