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The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon

Autor Fatima Bhutto
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2014
Fatima Bhutto's stunning debut novelThe Shadow of the Crescent Moonbegins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border.

Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. The second, a doctor, goes to check in at his hospital. His troubled wife does not join the family that morning. No one knows where Mina goes these days. And the youngest, the idealist, leaves for town on a motorbike. Seated behind him is a beautiful, fragile girl whose life and thoughts are overwhelmed by the war that has enveloped the place of her birth.

Three hours later their day will end in devastating circumstances.

The Shadow of the Crescent Moonchronicles the lives of five young people trying to live and love in a world on fire. Individuals are pushed to make terrible choices. And, as the events of this single morning unfold, one woman is at the centre of it all.

'A first novel of uncommon poise and acuity,The Shadow of the Crescent Moonis set in an old and protracted war for land and dignity. But its swift and suspenseful narrative describes a fiercely contemporary battle in the human heart: between the seductive fantasy of personal freedom and the tenacious claims of family, community and history.' Pankaj Mishra

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, grew up in Damascus, and lives in Karachi. This is her first novel.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241965627
ISBN-10: 0241965624
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel,The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father's life and assassination,Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent books areThe Runaways, a novel, andNew Kings of the World,a non-fiction reportage on popular culture and globalisation.

Recenzii

Bhutto writes ofan extraordinary place where beauty lives alongside brutality, with superb poise and a kind of defiant lyricism
Stunning. . . Few debut novels can adequately explore such colossal themes as betrayal and allegiance, or persuasively render fear, doubt and determination
Incredibly ambitious,extremely powerful and moving
Stunningly worded
Concise, elegant.Bhutto is a gifted and compelling writer, economically and poetically summoning up this beautiful mountainous backwater
Powerful, compelling,moving inexorably to a devastating conclusion
[Explores] the divisive split between those suffering from the direct consequences of war and a generation of unaware, complacent young Pakistanis
A first novel of uncommon poise and acuity,The Shadow of the Crescent Moonis set in an old and protracted war for land and dignity. Butits swift and suspenseful narrative describes a fiercely contemporary battle in the human heart: between the seductive fantasy of personal freedom and the tenacious claims of family, community and history
Anextraordinaryfirst novel which reads like a politico-religious thriller.Compelling.
This is (...)a human story, with love as well as ideology- Bhutto blends the two adroitly (and) writes with great poignancy, keeping the emotional pitch high
It'sa heart-stopping thriller, as well as an important political commentary about oppression, occupation and war.Most strikingly, though, it's a devastating love story
The novel is set over the course of one morning in a small town in Pakistan's tribal regions (and) follows the story of three brothers who are forced to make difficult choices. Butthe heart of the novel, for Bhutto, lies in the female characters
Thought-provoking. Above all, whatThe Shadow of the Crescent Mooncaptures so well is not just the trauma of war, but also the conflicts of contemporary Pakistanis, torn between remaining faithful to the legacy of previous generations, and their own dreams of choosing their own destiny