Shabanu
Subtitle: daughter of the wind
By: by Suzanne Fisher Staples.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Cholistan Desert (Pakistan) -- Fiction; Pakistan -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction
Description: When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.