01669cam a2200181   4500001000500000005001700005008003900022010001700061100001900078245004400097260003900141300002100180500001100201520105500212650005501267999001501322952015001337618420181127181117.0111109s2011    ii            000 1 eng  a  20113513601 aKhan, Shubnum.10aOnion tears :ba novel /cShubnum Khan.  aNew Delhi :bPenguin Books,c2011.  a286 p. ;c23 cm.  aNovel.  aLoss and life are the themes that weave through this tale  of three generations of Muslim women living in suburban  South Africa. Khadeejah Bibi Ballim is a hard-working and  stubborn first-generation Indian who longs for her  beloved homeland and often questions what she is doing on  the tip of Africa. At thirty-seven, her daughter Summaya  is struggling to reconcile her South African and Indian  identities, while Summaya s own daughter, eleven-year-old  Aneesa, is a girl who has some difficult questions of her  own. Is her mother lying to her about her father s death?  Why won t she tell her what really happened? Gradually,  the past merges with the present as the novel meanders  through their lives, uncovering the secrets people keep,  the words they swallow and the emotions they elect to  mute. For this family, faintly detectable through the  sharp spicy aromas that find their way out of Khadeejah s  kitchen, the scent of tragedy is always threatening.  Eventually it may bring this family together, if not, it  will tear them part.  aMuslim women -- South Africa -- Fiction.vxyz2  c5224d5224  00102ddc40708FICaRTCLIBbRTCLIBcFICd2021-03-01h i9858l4m10oFIC 823.92 KHAp30008473r2024-05-09 00:00:00s2022-01-03w2018-11-27yFIC