Title The Pakistani Bride : a Novel.

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New York : Milkweed Editions, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (273 pages)
Note	Print version record.
Summary	As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, Qasim makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. As the years pass, Qasim grows nostalgic about his life in the mountains while his hopelessly romantic teenage daughter, Zaitoon, imagines Qasim's homeland as a region of tall, kindly men who roam the Himalayas like gods. Impulsively, Qasim promis.
Subject	Orphans -- Fiction.
	Women -- Pakistan -- Fiction.
	Culture conflict -- Fiction.
	Himalaya Mountains Region -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	Culture conflict.
	Himalaya Mountains Region -- Social life and customs.
	Orphans.
	Pakistan -- Social life and customs.
	Women -- Pakistan.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	Culture conflict. (OCoLC)fst00885099
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Himalaya Mountains Region. (OCoLC)fst01257195
	Pakistan. (OCoLC)fst01210275
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781571310637
ISBN	9781571319043 (electronic bk.)
	1571319042 (electronic bk.)

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