Azad, Yasmin

Summary: This sharply insightful memoir depicts a young Muslim girl's struggle to balance the traditions of a loving yet conservative father, who wants to keep her safe, against the more liberal Westernized Sri Lankan world outside. This memoir provides a glimpse into the microcosmic Galle Fort Muslim community of the 1960s post independent Sri Lanka. -- from cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perera-Hussein Publishing House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AZAD, YASMIN AZA

Summary: After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a traveling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL