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Khan, Omar

Sawdust Castles : A Memoir

BBCL Publications, 2016

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Year of publication
2016
ISBN
9789699760020
Place of printing
Karachi, Pakistan
Author
Khan, Omar
Publishers
BBCL Publications
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
India Pakistan Partition Biography Pakistani Canadian writers
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Inscription description
Signed by Author(s)
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

"Sawdust Castles has its roots in the forced migration of the author's parents when India and Pakistan were partitioned in 1947. It is a story abiout the experiences of a family who abandoned the place Bareilly, India, where their cultural identity had flourished for centuries. It is a narrative of the many miseries inflicted upon them by migration, and the pain of their crippled hopes and fractured dreams, the undignified circumstances they endured and the sufferings they braved ass they struggled to survive in Pakistan. Edited by S.M.Shahid. 330p. plates Author inscription on dedication paege lse new[The author became an actor, playwright, TV producer as well as a respected international banker who now lives in Toronto]