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02188aam a22003378a 4500 001 760994AE419C11EA87B5E93097128E48 003 SILO 005 20200128010206 008 150923s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015036773 020 $a 1631580701 020 $a 9781631580703 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-pk--- 050 00 $a PS3611.H349 $b S55 2016 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 084 $a FIC051000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Khan, Minal. 245 10 $a Silk tether : $b a novel / $c Minal Khan. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Yucca Pub., $c [2016] 263 $a 1602 300 $a p. ; cm. 520 $a "This is the real world of modern Karachi as seen through the eyes of a young woman in an elite family. Here are the hidden dramatic realities of the upper class, the undertow of religion, revealing the truth sometimes spoken in hushed whispers, more often swept away by the flourish of silk saris at extravagant dinner parties...or perhaps never mentioned at all. Often tragic, always youthful, yet never what those in the West expect, here in fully realized first-person prose are the lives of Ayla, the protagonist, and her boundaries and customs, as well as those of her friends: Alia, oppressed by her wealthy, overly conservative parents, and Tanzeela, a teenager trapped in an abusive arranged marriage. From silk saris to bombings; from fundamentalism to American sympathy; from Dior makeup to desperate poverty; from sexual abuse to religious taboos, the world of Ayla, in her late teens, struggling in the real world of modern-day Pakistan, is anything but simple. Silk Tether is a revealing, truthful, poignant novel destined to become a must-read by Westerners seeking to understand the complex world of Islamic fundamentalist countries"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Young women $z Pakistan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Upper class $z Pakistan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Culture conflict $z Pakistan $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Cultural Heritage. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20230209014145.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=760994AE419C11EA87B5E93097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search