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The Hour Past Midnight

By Salma Salma

The Hour Past Midnight Contemporary literature

The Hour Past Midnight

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Description
Rabia is growing up in a conservative community in southern India. One day, she and her friends sneak off to the pictures. Caught on her return home, Rabia gets a beating from her mother, Zohra, who cries as she beats her daughter into submission. Firdaus is beautiful and of marriageable age. A groom is found for her, a wealthy man who lives abroad. On her wedding night, she takes one look at him and says, 'I'm not going to live with you, don't touch me!' Inside their male dominated world, Rabia, Zohra, Firdaus, and many others make their small rebellions and compromises, friendships are made and broken, families come together and fall apart, and almost imperceptibly change creeps in. Salma's beautiful, evocative, poetic novel recreates the sometimes suffocating, and sometimes heartbreaking world of Muslim women in southern India. The Hour Past Midnight is translated into English by Lakshmi Holmstrom.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
480
Release Date:
2016-07-15
Publication Date:
2016-07-15
Publisher:
Seagull Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
8189884662
ISBN13:
9788189884666
Weight:
407 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
200 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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