The Pakistani bride
By: Bapsi Sidhwa.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781571310637
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction.; Women -- Pakistan -- Fiction.; Culture conflict -- Fiction.; Himalaya Mountains Region -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.; Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Bride
Description: "Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, particularly for women. Traveling alone from the isolated mountain village where he was born, a tribal man takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the glittering city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, he makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. Yet as teh years pass, he grows nostalgic for his life in the mountains, and his fifteen-year-old daughter envisions a romantic landscape, filled with tall men who roam the mountains like gods. Impulsively, the man promises his daughter in marriage to a man of his tribe. But once she arrives in the mountains, the ancient customs of unquestioning obedience and backbreaking work make accepting her fate as the bride of an inscrutable husband impossible. Unfortunately, the only escape is one from which there is no return."--Back cover.