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Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.
Harvest Books
June 2005
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Featuring: Aasmaani
352 pages
ISBN: 0156030535
EAN: 9780156030533
Paperback
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Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram
disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's
greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In
present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just
discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter
that could only have been written recently. Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always
left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile,
she had assumed that her mother's disappearance was simply
another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan's first
independent TV station, Aasmaani runs into an old friend of
Samina's who gives her the first letter, then many more.
Where could the letters have come from? And will they lead
her to her mother? Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at
once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan,
a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter
story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.
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