The Girl With the Paisley Dupatta and Other Stories by Mahvash K Mohtadullah
The Girl With the Paisley Dupatta and Other Stories by Mahvash K Mohtadullah
Many of the stories in this collection are from outside the bell curve of our lives, embracing sensitive social issues that are spoken of either in subdued whispers or not at all: from the brutal vigilante justice dispensed in the name of religion in The Gods of Fury; to the harrowing custom of honour revenge in the Sins of our Fathers; to the patriarchal ruthlessness that so many young women are subjected to in the title story The Girl with the Paisley Dupatta.
Some of the other stories are of women and men negotiating life, love, friendship, careers and tradition in the sometimes tumultuous and many times limiting folds of their families and communities: from the love affair of the enterprising sixty-one-year-old Nighat in Love in Rawalpindi; to the shenanigans of a dancing queen in Riotous Love; to the complicated friendship between two middle- aged unmarried society girls in Days of Purgatory.
The last two stories are a tribute to that most ingenious art form, political satire.
These tales will make you laugh, cry and ruminate in equal measure while niggling at the peripheries of conventional value systems.
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