Their Language of Love
Author | : Bapsi Sidhwa |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9788184759273 |
ISBN-13 | : 8184759274 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In this brand-new collection of stories, Bapsi Sidhwa returns to chronicling the lives and loves of those on both sides of the Indo-Pak border. A wife worries for her family’s survival during the 1965 Indo-Pak war. A mother is horrified when she learns that her daughter wants to marry her American boyfriend. An American housewife living in Lahore has a tempestuous affair with a Pakistani minister. An aged matriarch travels to the USA to discover she must confront a traumatic memory from her past. Finely nuanced, and laced with Sidhwa’s sharply comic observations, this is a stellar collection of tales from one of the subcontinent’s most important and beloved writers.