The Golden Cage: Urdu Short Stories by Asian Women in Britain

This book is a collection of twelve Urdu short stories by Asian women in Britain. Translated and compiled by Safia Siddiqi this book presents twelve beautiful stories written by Indian and Pakistani women now settled in Britain. These stories have been written from two separate but interlinked perspectives- of the displaced and uprooted immigrant, homesick and lonely, trying to adjust to a new way of living in a cold and often unfriendly racist neighborhood ; of women becoming increasingly aware of changing values and the burden of traditional constraints imposed on wives by husbands following patriarchal norms and authoritarian ways with greater fervor when fearful of their erosion in permissive Britain. While the feminism of most of the writers in this anthology is not overt or accentuated, it runs like an undercurrent through the entire collection, treated with detachment and irony in some stories or with emotional intensity in others.