Author: Tehmina Durrani
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 227
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140280049
Description
Now available in paperback edition, one of the exciting books of 1998.
Tehmina Durrani made her sensational literary debut in 1991 with her controversial autobiography My Feudal Lord. Blasphemy, her next major work, promises to generate the same degree of excitement. Set in south Pakistan, the novel inspired by a true story, is a searing study of evil; an uncompromising look at the distortion of Islam by predatory religious leaders.
In prose of great power and intensity, the author tells the tragic story of the beautiful Here, brutalized and corrupted by Pir Sain, the man of God, whom she is married to when barely fifteen. But the nightmare she is locked into is not hers alone; it affects the entire clan that owes allegiance to the pir. In the Pir's haveli, unspeakable horrors are perpetrated every day and every night, all in the name of Allah. Sucked into the fetid hell of her lord's making, Heer loses her dignity, her freedom, even her humanity, till a terrible resolution gives her back to herself.
COMMENTS:
The enduring impression of the book is its sustained capacity to shock the reader ... you turn the pages, compelled to read on. - Biblio
Durrani has dared breach the one are that remains taboo for most citizens of Islamic countries: the powerful mullah-pir community and their perversion of the Prophet's word... - The Hindu
Contents
CHAPTER 1
Release
CHAPTER 2
Stepping Out
CHAPTER 3
Stepping In
CHAPTER 4
Jahanum
CHAPTER 5
Unbound
CHAPTER 6
Circling the Square
CHAPTER 7
The Lure of Innocence
CHAPTER 8
Chote Sain
CHAPTER 9
Killer Waves
CHAPTER 10
Heroes
CHAPTER 11
In the Name of Allah
CHAPTER 12
Shattering the Myth
Epilogue