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1971: While a savage civil war rages in East Pakistan, a thousand miles away in West Pakistan, in the safe, cosy village of Sabzbagh, life appears to continue undisturbed. An ancient preoccupation with family honour and social propriety dominates the lives of peasants and landed gentry alike.
It is here at her family estate in Sabzbagh, that naïve, privileged nine-year-old Laila is spending her winter vacation. Laila's world is peopled by adults - progressive
parents, a protective ayah, and an imperious, old-fashioned grandmother.
Adored and indulged though she is, Laila feels excluded from this enigmatic grown-up world. Much like the young heroes of her favourite Enid Blyton adventures, she
yearns for a slice of the action, and with a best friend by her side. This friend is Rani - the spirited teenage granddaughter of a family servant. Rani, however, is hurtling into a forbidden love affair, and when she becomes pregnant, she has no one to turn to but Laila. Eager but artless, Laila plunges headlong into helping Rani. As she flounders in an adult world she does not understand, Laila unwittingly unleashes a catastrophe.
This is the story of a guileless relationship between two girls; and as the larger political reality unfolds tragically in the background, so politics is played with Rani.
The End of Innocence is a coming-of-age story not just of two children, but of a country and an ideology.
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From the Back Cover:
`Mohsin uses words like a palette to paint a vivid picture of
the country she grew up in...this is a beautifully written work which
promises to be a real success.' Big Issue
About the Author:
the country she grew up in...this is a beautifully written work which
promises to be a real success.' Big Issue
`An enjoyable polyphony of characters ... an assured, emotionally engaging
novel' Literary Review
`Eager, warm-hearted and bright ... moving and compulsively readable' Irish
Examiner
`Accomplished and moving ... deals not only with the aftermath of a
dangerous love, but with its effects on an entire community' Independent
`Mohsin cleverly dissects the complex anatomy of this gossipy, tightknit
community' Guardian
Moni Mohsin was born and raised in Pakistan. She lives in London with her husband and two children
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1905490119
- ISBN 13 9781905490110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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