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Yucca Publishing
February 2016
On Sale: February 2, 2016
Featuring: Tanzeela; Alia; Ayla
ISBN: 1631580701
EAN: 9781631580703
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This is the real world of modern Karachi as seen through the
eyes of a young woman in an elite family. Here are the
hidden dramatic realities of the upper class, the undertow
of religion, revealing the truth sometimes spoken in hushed
whispers, more often swept away by the flourish of silk
saris at extravagant dinner parties . . . or perhaps never
mentioned at all. Often tragic, always youthful, yet never what those in the
West expect, here in fully realized first-person prose are
the lives of Ayla, the protagonist, and her boundaries and
customs, as well as those of her friends: Alia, oppressed by
her wealthy, overly conservative parents, and Tanzeela, a
teenager trapped in an abusive arranged marriage. From silk
saris to bombings; from fundamentalism to American sympathy;
from Dior makeup to desperate poverty; from sexual abuse to
religious taboos, the world of Ayla, in her late teens,
struggling in the real world of modern-day Pakistan, is
anything but simple. Silk Tether is a revealing, truthful, poignant novel
destined to become a must-read by westerners seeking to
understand the complex world of Islamic fundamentalist
countries.
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