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SADIKA'S WAY has been chosen as a 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognise outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region. The clock had started ticking for Sadika from the day she was born into her traditional Pakistani village family. She must be married off to somebody while she is still a teenager or she will be considered a hopeless failure. Carefully planned marriages are a long tradition in Pakistan, as they are throughout the Middle East, where women have little social status and fewer individual rights and much of their value is measured by how good a marriage can be arranged for them. Sadika must be married off first because she is the eldest of three daughters. It would be a disgrace an indelible stigma - if a younger daughter was married first. The enormous tension that accompanies this ancient ritual makes 'Sadika's Way' at once a very funny and instructive work of fiction: we watch as mothers vie with each other on their daughters' behalf for the affections of the most eligible males. We see them in their homes and listen to their conversations as they boast to each other about their daughters' qualities - real and imagined. The infighting gets intense, even downright nasty, all fed by the desperation that grows quite naturally out of a system that literally holds the fate of women in its hands. Sadika's coming of age and final journey to a new life involve culture clashes and family characters worthy of a modern Middle Eastern Jane Austen. This is a social comedy with serious undertones and a rare novel of manners which spans the world in both time and space.

Sadika's Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America

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SADIKA'S WAY has been chosen as a 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to... Read more

    Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
    Publication Date: 01/05/2004
    ISBN13: 9780897335188, 978-0897335188
    ISBN10: 089733518X

    Number of Pages: 302

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    SADIKA'S WAY has been chosen as a 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognise outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region. The clock had started ticking for Sadika from the day she was born into her traditional Pakistani village family. She must be married off to somebody while she is still a teenager or she will be considered a hopeless failure. Carefully planned marriages are a long tradition in Pakistan, as they are throughout the Middle East, where women have little social status and fewer individual rights and much of their value is measured by how good a marriage can be arranged for them. Sadika must be married off first because she is the eldest of three daughters. It would be a disgrace an indelible stigma - if a younger daughter was married first. The enormous tension that accompanies this ancient ritual makes 'Sadika's Way' at once a very funny and instructive work of fiction: we watch as mothers vie with each other on their daughters' behalf for the affections of the most eligible males. We see them in their homes and listen to their conversations as they boast to each other about their daughters' qualities - real and imagined. The infighting gets intense, even downright nasty, all fed by the desperation that grows quite naturally out of a system that literally holds the fate of women in its hands. Sadika's coming of age and final journey to a new life involve culture clashes and family characters worthy of a modern Middle Eastern Jane Austen. This is a social comedy with serious undertones and a rare novel of manners which spans the world in both time and space.

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