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Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani-Style
For women growing up in Pakistan s patriarchal, segregated society, it is not surprising that female friendships take on a deep, enduring resonance. These relationships, formed in adolescence and nurtured into adulthood, give Afzal-Khan the strength to be defiant, a wry sense of humor to weather the contradictions in daily Pakistani life, and memories to sustain her as she continues to straddle two continents and two cultures.
In Lahore with Love, Afzal-Khan shares intimate stories of these young girls, and later women, celebrating the strong bonds that helped shape her character. She balances this coming-of-age memoir with a clear-eyed look at a country that evokes both fierce loyalty and utter despair from its inhabitants. The author recalls growing up in the sixties and seventies in Lahore, living in a time of war, attending a Roman Catholic school as a Muslim middle-class teenager, and enduring the constant political upheaval that threatened her freedoms. Afzal-Khan eventually leaves Lahore and moves to the United States to pursue her Ph.D. She recounts the complex mix of longing and alienation that she feels upon returning to visit her homeland and friends.
Lahore with Love offers a rich portrait of daily life in Pakistan. Afzal- Khan gives readers a welcome alternative to the often reductive, flat images of modern Muslim women.
In Lahore with Love, Afzal-Khan shares intimate stories of these young girls, and later women, celebrating the strong bonds that helped shape her character. She balances this coming-of-age memoir with a clear-eyed look at a country that evokes both fierce loyalty and utter despair from its inhabitants. The author recalls growing up in the sixties and seventies in Lahore, living in a time of war, attending a Roman Catholic school as a Muslim middle-class teenager, and enduring the constant political upheaval that threatened her freedoms. Afzal-Khan eventually leaves Lahore and moves to the United States to pursue her Ph.D. She recounts the complex mix of longing and alienation that she feels upon returning to visit her homeland and friends.
Lahore with Love offers a rich portrait of daily life in Pakistan. Afzal- Khan gives readers a welcome alternative to the often reductive, flat images of modern Muslim women.
145 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2010
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April 10, 2018
Few Pakistani Female writers can pen down thoughts with the lucidity and wit like Dr Fawzia Afzal Khan. a much needed memoir , for we must encourage readers and writers alike to render words to their history , culture and life because we are unique in our State and status.
I have my reservations about certain beliefs as presented in the text but on a literary scale I surely enjoyed every but of this read
I have my reservations about certain beliefs as presented in the text but on a literary scale I surely enjoyed every but of this read
December 11, 2010
This book has been pulled by Syracuse University Press due to a frivolous defamation lawsuit. It's a shame that chilling effects work against institutions that are supposed to be safe havens for brave, risk-taking work. Afzal-Khan is a lot of fun on the page, and her stream-of-consciousness style that sits somewhere between the school girl she was in Pakistan and the expat scholar she is now allows her to pull off some pretty marvelous tricks of storytelling.
January 3, 2012
She thinks Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in 1959. Inexcusable!
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