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Stay, Daughter
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Swift Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: LLL3D2Y
EAN: 9781800751392
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Zustellung: Di, 28.07.2026
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Yasmin Azad
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2023
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 256