Fatima & Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr's loving tribute to their Joonam
Fatima & Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr's loving tribute to their Joonam published in Paper MagazineSource: http://styleonpaper.com/2012/11/23/fatima-and-zulfikar-ali-bhuttos-loving-tribute-to-their-joonam/ |
THE SHADOW OF THE CRESCENT MOON by FATIMA BHUTTO
PUBLICATION DATE7th November 2013This is a novel about a family - three brothers and their wives and lovers - set in a small town in Pakistan, close to the border with Afghanistan. At the heart of the novel are two women - the beautiful Samarra and the grief-stricken Mina. Through them we see a story of betrayal, of love and how conflict makes cowards of us all. With a brilliant twist, Fatima Bhutto’s novel explores how war forces the individual to make terrible choices, to choose hope over love, the future over the present. Devastatingly moving, fast-paced and deeply resonant, it is an extraordinary debut.Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul in 1982. She is one of the prominent Bhutto family, which counts among its members Fatima’s aunt, the assassinated former president Benazir Bhutto, and former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Fatima’s maternal grandfather.She is the author of Songs of Blood and Sword, p |
The broken bloodline
Young, brash and angry, they started Al Zulfikar, or the Sword, an armed movement that sought to overthrow Zia. The revolutionaries shot to fame in 1981 with the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines jet that was forced to land in Kabul, where the Bhutto brothers lived in exile under the communist government. The precise details of what unfolded are still disputed, and Murtaza's family claims that he was not involved in the plot (but did act as a negotiator). But a young army officer aboard the plane was executed, some Bhutto supporters were released from jail and flown to Libya, and the brothers became A-list enemies of the powerful military establishment.
Along the way, the Bhutto brothers married two Afghan sisters, the daughters of an Afghan foreign affairs official. Murtaza had a daughter, Fatima, with his wife Fauzia, but they divorced three years later. The brothers flitted to Tripoli then to Europe, sheltering with sympathetic governments. But in 1985 exile took a d |
The Shadow of the Crescent Moon / Fatima Bhutto
This, Fatima Bhutto's first novel, is the story of a family: three brothers who live in a small town in Pakistan, close to the border with Afghanistan. Through three women - their mother Zainab, the beautiful Samarra and the grief-stricken Mina - Fatima Bhutto explores the way in which war forces the individual to make terrible choices, to choose hope over love, the future over the present. Devastatingly moving, it is an extraordinary debut. Source: http://www.penguinrights.co.uk/ |
