Haveli
Haveli

Author: Suzanne Fisher Staples

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0307977897

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The world of Newbery Honor Book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her position in her husband's household, even as she plans for her young daughter's education and uncertain future. Then, during a visit to the haveli, their home in the city of Lahore, Shabanu falls in love with Omar, in spite of traditions that forbid their union.

Inside the Haveli
Inside the Haveli

Author: Rama Mehta

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780140261202

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This Indian novel takes the reader behind the scenes of an ongoing, deeply rooted tradition and into a way of life that for outsiders has long been veiled with mystery.

Inside the Haveli
Inside the Haveli

Author: Rama Mehta

Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780704343948

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In this novel the author draws back the curtains on a deeply felt and ongoing tradition. Through the eyes of the main character, Geeta, she goes behind the scenes into a way of life that has long been shrouded in mystery. When Geeta, an educated, outgoing young woman from Bombay, marries into a staunchly traditional family, she suddenly finds herself forced to live in purdah in her husband's ancient home, the haveli. Unable to escape from the conservative customs that now define her life, she struggles to hold on to the modern values she has grown to cherish. Can she discover new meaning and dignity in what at first seems to her a strange and stultifying existence?