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