Pomegranate & fig

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The work Pomegranate & fig represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Pomegranate & fig

Statement of responsibility

Zaheda Ghani

Title variation

Pomegranate and fig

Creator

• Ghani, Zaheda

Author

• Ghani, Zaheda

Subject

• Australian fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Herat (Afghanistan) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
• Herat (Afghanistan) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Arranged marriage -- Fiction
• Political violence -- Fiction
• Sydney (N.S.W.)$vFiction
• War -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Australian author

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely enclosed behind her desk at school. They come to start a conversation that is both taboo and a normal part of life. A small, intimate group, precious stones decorate their necks and fingers, the sond, embroidery, on their pantaloons and translucent veils catches the afternoon light. Their eyebrows are groomed into elegant curves. They float on a cloud of perfume to Henna's family home.'A deeply moving novel about tradition, love, war and the sorrow & hope exile will bring.Tracing the lives of three young people, Henna, her brother Hamid, and a man who will become her husband, Rahim, this lyrical and evocative story reveals the political entanglements and family dynamics that are heightened and shattered by conflict. Taking us from the streets of Herat in the 1970s, invaded by Soviet forces, to India in the 1980s and then to the suburbs of Sydney, Pomegranate & Fig vividly illuminates the disruption, displacement and tragedy that war unleashes

Dewey number

A823.4

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction