Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Title

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Subject

Sex role -- Fiction. Pakistan -- Fiction. Cholistan Desert (Pakistan) -- Fiction.

Description

When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

Creator

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Date

1991

Type

PZ7 .S79346 Sh

Identifier

2003.500.2837

Collection