Animal Medicine
| Author: |
Bina Shah |
| Publisher: |
Oxford |
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"Animal Medicine takes the reader through a sea of conflicting emotional states as one courses through each story. Crow Knows will amuse you. Going Fishing will touch you to the beauty of adolescence and how misunderstood they are by parents. The Names of Butterflies talks about the innocence of childhood and how that follows into adolescence. Elephants and Angels will shake you to the core of the heart and bring a lump into your throat. If only cats could talk and Beating the donkey will make you laugh out loud. Abdullah and the yellow dog and Never hurt again will bring tears to your eyes, horrifying and attracting you to at the same time. Forbidden meat is something the readers will relate to very well. Snake bite will leave you applauding the heroine of the tale."
Ayesha Khaled, Books & Authors, Dawn, Feb 13th, 2001
Animal Medicine is a collection of ten unusual short stories, each with its own unique interpretation on life in Pakistan. Based on the strong subcontinental tradition of folklore and storytelling, the meeting of human and animal is the backdrop for an incredible variety of observations, reflections, and revelations about this rich yet enigmatic country.
From the beautiful but harsh terrain of the North, to the fertile lands of the South, from the densely packed streets of Karachi, to the new horizons of America, these tales chronicle, with sensitivity and wit, compassion and humour, a land and its people that are like no other on this earth.
| DesiStore # |
PBH00967 |
| ISBN |
0-19-579103-7 |
| Edition |
First |
| Year |
2000 |
| Pages |
106 |
| Weight (kg) |
0.29 |
| Shipping Weight (lbs) |
0.72 |
| HB/PB |
Hard Back |
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'Deftly written and well structured, this collection of stories will touch the hearts of children as well as adults. With swift sure strokes, using the rich Pakistani landscape as her palette, Bina Shah fuses the world of humans and animals in a stunning alliance. Shah's way with words, her fine sensibility and eye for detail, make one hope for more fiction by this promising new Pakistani author'
Bapsi Sidhwa, novelist
Animal Medicine
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