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by Bapsi Sidhwa


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  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  © 1983, Text by Bapsi Sidhwa

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-

  Publication Data

  Sidhwa, Bapsi.

  [Bride]

  The Pakistani bride / Bapsi Sidhwa.—

  1st American ed.

  p. cm.

  eISBN : 978-1-571-31904-3

  (pbk. : acid-free paper)

  1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Women—Pakistan—Fiction. 3. Culture conflict—Fiction. 4. Himalaya Mountains Region—Social life and customs—Fiction. 5. Pakistan—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR9540.9.S53B7 2008

  823’.914—dc22

  2007032041 CIP

  This book is printed on acid-free, recycled (100% postconsumer waste) paper.

 

 

 


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