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Rabia is growing up in a conservative
community in southern India. One day, she
and her friends sneak off to the pictures. Caught
on her return home, Rabia gets a beating from
her mother, Zohra, who cries as she beats her
daughter into submission.
Firdaus is beautiful and of marriageable age.
A groom is found for her, a wealthy man who
lives abroad. On her wedding night, she takes one look at him and says, ‘I’m not going to live
with you, don’t touch me!’
Inside their male dominated world, Rabia,
Zohra, Firdaus, and many others make their
small rebellions and compromises, friendships
are made and broken, families come together
and fall apart, and almost imperceptibly change
creeps in. Salma’s beautiful, evocative, poetic
novel recreates the sometimes suffocating, and
sometimes heartbreaking world of Muslim
women in southern India.
ISBN - 978818988466
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Pages : 480
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