by Bapsi Sidhwa · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742713837
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«La fiancée pakistanaise» is the novel by Bapsi Sidhwa, published by Actes Sud in its Babel collection in paperback format and in French.
After the massacres of the partition of India, a girl from Punjab is adopted by a highlander from Kohistan who raises her in Lahore; later, he marries her to a man of his tribe, though nothing binds them. The novel combines adventure with an evocation of an intimate Pakistan and characters of great strength.
The work was originally published in English as The Pakistani Bride (1983); this French edition is translated from the English by Christine Le Bœuf.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Pakistan and India after partition.
Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.
