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Phoenix Fled
[Paperback - 2021]
attia hosain
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Virago Press Uk | ISBN: 9780349014463 | Pages: 208
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"Listen to me, child. You will be a woman soon and must behave well and with modesty. The Kazi will ask you three times whether you will marry Kalloo Mian. Now don't you be shameless, like these modern educated girls, and shout gleefully 'Yes.' Be modest and cry softly and say 'Hoon'"A marriage is arranged between a little servant girl and a middle-aged cook with an opium habit; an idealistic political worker faces disillusionment; a servant returns to a wife he scarcely knows; a conventional bride has her first encounter with her husband's "emancipated" friends: telling of the lives of servants and children, of conflict between the old traditions and the new, modern civilisation, and exploring the human repercussions of the Muslim/Hindu divide, these twelve short stories present a moving and vivid picture of life in India. To each episode Attia Hosain brings a superb imaginative understanding and sense of poignancy of the smallest of human dramas.

About the Author

Attia Hosain (1913–1998) was a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar background. She moved to Britain in 1947.Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College. She was the daughter of Sheikh Shahid Husain Kidwai and Nisar Fatima, the daughter of Syed Maqbool Hussain Alvi of Kakori.She studied at Isabella Thoburn College from the age of fifteen and Lucknow University.She moved to Britain in 1947 and became a broadcaster for the BBC, hosting a popular women's radio programme.Attia's niece is the Pakistani authorMuneeza Shamsieand her great-niece is authorKamila Shamsie. British television director Waris Hussein is her son and film producer Shama Habibullah is her daughter.(from Wikipedia)

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