The End of Innocence
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0143100505
Length
354p.
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1971: While a savage civil war rages in East Pakistan, a thousand miles away in West Pakistan, in the safe, cozy village of Sabzbagh, life appears to continue undisturbed. An ancient preoccupation with family honor and social propriety dominates the lives of peasants and landed gentry alike. It is here, at her family estate in Sabzbagh, that naive, privileged nine-year-old Laila is spending her winter vacation. Laila's world is peopled by adults-progressive ...