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Stay, Daughter
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Engelsk Hardback

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We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some of us longed for more learning and dreamed about leaving home to get it. The elders shook their heads and cautioned: too much education could ruin a girl’s future.

To be a Muslim girl in the Sri Lanka of the 50s and 60s was to have to stay inside once you hit puberty; where even a glimpse of flesh was forbidden; and where things were done the way they’d always been done.

But Yasmin Azad’s family is full of love, humour and larger-than-life characters, despite the strictures half of them were under. And almost despite himself, Yasmin’s father allows her an education – an education that would open the whole world to her, even as it risked closing her off from those she was closest to.

An extraordinary portrait of a time and a community in the midst of profound change, Stay, Daughter vividly evokes a now-vanished world, but its central clash – that of tradition and modernity – is one that will always be with us.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781800751392
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1800751397
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 apr 2023
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
144mm
Forlag:
Swift Press
Oplagsdato:
6 apr 2023
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge