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008			111109s2011 ii 000 1 eng
010			_a 2011351360
100	1		_aKhan, Shubnum.
245	1	0	_aOnion tears : _ba novel / _cShubnum Khan.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bPenguin Books, _c2011.
300			_a286 p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aNovel.
520			_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.
650			_aMuslim women -- South Africa -- Fiction. _v _x _y _z _2
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