The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan,Used

The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan,Used

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A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its womenAn Indies Introduce Debut Authors SelectionFor a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the countrys former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in KarachiBhuttos birthplace and Pakistans other great metropolisRafia Zakarias family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her Uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death. In that moment these twin catastrophesone political and public, the other secret and intensely personalbriefly converged.Zakaria uses that moment to begin her intimate exploration of the country of her birth. Her MuslimIndian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, escaping the precarious state in which the Muslim population in India found itself following the Partition. For them, Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time, Zakarias family prospered and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistans military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rulea campaign that particularly affected womens freedom and safety. The political became personal when her aunt Aminas husband, Sohail, did the unthinkable and took a second wife, a humiliating and painful betrayal of kin and custom that shook the foundation of Zakarias family but was permitted under the countrys new laws. The young Rafia grows up in the shadow of Aminas shame and fury, while the world outside her home turns ever more chaotic and violent as the opportunities available to postPartition immigrants are dramatically curtailed and terrorism sows its seeds in Karachi.Telling the parallel stories of Aminas polygamous marriage and Pakistans hopes and betrayals, The Upstairs Wife is an intimate exploration of the disjunction between exalted dreams and complicated realities.

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