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Sunlight On a Broken Column
[Paperback - 2021]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Virago Press Uk | ISBN: 9780349014470 | Pages: 384
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Laila, orphaned daughter of a distinguished Muslim family, is brought up by her orthodox aunts who keep purdah. At 15, she moves to the home of a "liberal" uncle in Lucknow. Here, during the 1930s, as the struggle for independence sharpens, Laila is surrounded by relatives and university friends caught up in politics. But Laila is unable to commit herself to any cause: her own fight for independence is a struggle with traditional life as she falls in love with a man not chosen by her family. With its beautiful evocation of India, its political insight and unsentimental understanding of the human heart, this is a classic of Muslim life.

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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