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Poliomyelitis --- Patients --- Fiction. --- India

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Loading his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and widowed mother-in-law into a bullock cart, Faredoon Junglewalla—Freddy for short—leaves his ancestral village in the forests of central India, bound for the bustling city of Lahore. Despite the nagging of his unbearable mother-in-law, Freddy’s business and family flourish, and he soon becomes a patriarchal figure in the thriving Parsee community. This endearing family saga provides a vibrant window onto life in India under British colonial rule, and a nation on the threshold of historic transformation.

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“India is going to be broken. Can you break a country? And what happens if they break it where our house is?” As the young daughter of an affluent Parsee family in Lahore, Lenny—who is crippled by polio—is keenly observant of the city’s astonishing diversity. As Lahore descends into sectarian violence due to the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Lenny’s innocence is lost, and with it, the fragile unity of the subcontinent.

Poliomyelitis --- Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Patients --- Fiction

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Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, especially for women. Traveling alone from the isolated village where he was born, a tribal man takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the glittering city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, he makes his fortune and sets up a home for the two of them. Yet, as the years pass, he grows nostalgic for life in the mountains. Impulsively, the man promises his daughter in marriage to a man of his tribe, but once she arrives in the mountains, the ancient customs of unquestioning obedience and backbreaking work make accepting her fate impossible. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this story of the conflict between adherence to tradition and the indomitable force of a woman’s spirit can now resume its rightful place as one of Bapsi Sidhwa’s most urgent and contemporary works of fiction.

Femmes --- Pakistan --- Romans --- Moeurs et coutumes