LIBROS DEL AUTOR: fiza pathan

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: fiza pathan

  • Someone Is Burning My Lord, Kumbaaya
    Fiza Pathan / Michaelangelo Zane
    Kumbaaya, a nine-year-old boy, keeps asking himself and the other students, 'who is Guruji and how does he do those impossible things!' They attend an exclusive school for boys, taught by Guruji, where they learn to control special powers. A twelve-year-old child bride is almost burned alive on the funeral pyre with her ninety-nine-year-old, deceased husband. Kumbaaya and his f...
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  • The Reclusive Writer & Reader of Bandra
    Fiza Pathan
    As for me, if it were not for you (Papa), never would I have been to the places I have been and done the things I have done, which have shaped me into the writer, teacher, and reader I am. One might say Fiza Pathan’s father started her on a path toward books. He wanted a boy child and got a girl, and as a result, Fiza went to live with her mother and uncle at her grandmother’s...
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  • NIRMALA
    Fiza Pathan
    This story is about Nirmala the Mud Blossom, who had the misfortune of being born female in Mumbai. Rejected and thrown into the dustbin when she was just two days old, the child was rescued and returned to her family by the NGOs.Nirmala is ill-treated by her mother and subject to violence at her hands. She is allowed to continue her studies only because she can coach her young...
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  • Amina
    Fiza Pathan
    Amina: The Silent One is the story of a musical prodigy born in the slums of Mumbai and her journey into hell. Born to Jaffer and his wife, Amina is their third female child, and they want to get rid of her. But sage advice from a professor of history changes their minds. This is the story about how poverty, sexual debasement, and sexual abuse is meted out to Amina, and how mus...
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    7,73 €

  • The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
    Fiza Pathan
    The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Fiza Pathan is a collection of twenty-one original short stories, each centered on some aspect of the social, cultural, psychological, and emotional issues facing the LGBTQIA community in the world today. False prejudice has blighted much of society’s sensitivity to what is necessarily a human rights issue. Ignorance has compounded it. W...
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