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Also by Bina Shah:

The Monsoon War, May 2023
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Before She Sleeps, August 2018
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A Season For Martyrs, November 2014
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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
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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)