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A Season For Martyrs
Bina Shah
Delphinium
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
288 pages ISBN: 1883285615 EAN: 9781883285616 Kindle: B00NVZPD6M Paperback / e-Book
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Historical | Fiction
October, 2007. Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returns home after eight years of exile to seek political office once more. Assigned to cover her controversial arrival is TV journalist Ali Sikandar, the estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh. While her presence ignites fierce protests and assassination attempts, Ali finds himself irrevocably drawn to the pro-democracy People’s Resistance Movement, a secret that sweeps him into the many contradictions of a country still struggling to embrace modernity. As Shah weaves together the centuries-old history of Ali’s feudal family and its connection to the Bhuttos, she brilliantly reveals a story at the crossroads of the personal and the political, a chronicle of one man’s desire to overcome extremity to find love, forgiveness, and even identity itself.
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Re: A Season For Martyrs
This review makes the novel sound fascinating. I am particularly struck by the historical weaving of Pakistani's rich cultural history with a very contemporary story of a troubled young man. (Joseph Olshan 2:31pm January 8, 2015)
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