Sunlight On a Broken Column by Attia Hosain, Attia Hosain
Sunlight On a Broken Column

Attia Hosain, Attia Hosain

Sunlight On a Broken Column

Attia Hosain, Attia Hosain

missing page info Add in missing page information first pub 1961 (editions)

emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Laila, orphaned daughter of a distinguished Muslim family, is brought up in her grandfather's house by orthodox aunts who keep purdah. At fifteen she moves to the home of a liberal but autocratic uncle in Lucknow. Here, during the 1930's, as the s...

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