Suzanne Fisher Staples
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel, both aged fifteen, to the forefront of an attempt to modernize Pakistan, but the teens must both sacrifice their own dreams if they are to meet family and tribal expectations.
2) Haveli
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to located their missing loved ones after the war ends.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
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