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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
© 1983, Text by Bapsi Sidhwa
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
Publication Data
Sidhwa, Bapsi.
[Bride]
The Pakistani bride / Bapsi Sidhwa.—
1st American ed.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-571-31904-3
(pbk. : acid-free paper)
1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Women—Pakistan—Fiction. 3. Culture conflict—Fiction. 4. Himalaya Mountains Region—Social life and customs—Fiction. 5. Pakistan—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9540.9.S53B7 2008
823’.914—dc22
2007032041 CIP
This book is printed on acid-free, recycled (100% postconsumer waste) paper.