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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)

Laurel Leaf (Aug 12, 2003)
9780440238560
| Mass Market Paperback
288 pages | 107 x 170 mm | English

Subject

  • Cholistan Desert (Pakistan)
  • Juvenile Fiction / Family / General
  • Pakistan
  • Sex Role
  • Sex Role/ Fiction

Plot

Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family’s honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart?