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About the Book:
Daria, the heroine of the book is born under unusual circumstances that cause the people of her small village to gossip; yet as she grows she becomes an intelligent, sensitive and spiritual beauty that one feels is destined for a perfect life. After a flood, a boy is found on the bank of her river. Daria’s parents adopt the boy, and Daria befriends him. As they grow Daria begins to inhabit Mizan’s dreams and thoughts, but a sudden meeting with anglophile Ali Baba brings everything crashing down around Daria. She forgets her upbringing and falls madly in love with him and after her hasty wedding, she moves to Baba Lodge and is brought into the suffocating life of Ali Baba and his family.
Here she lives a life unloved and psychologically abused until she gets pregnant. Now she begins to hope that finally her potential for love, luck and happiness will be realized through her new-born child. Yet relations between Daria and her in-laws deteriorate further. Daria finds herself torn between the religious mandate of Islam to stay with and obey her husband and the call of her intellect and instincts to flee and forge a different life for her daughter.
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About the Author:
Dilruba Z. Ara was born in Bangladesh. Nurtured on Greek mythology by her father, and hearing Indian fairy tales as bedtime stories from her mother, Dilruba had her first story published when she was eight years old. While in university at the age of twenty, she met and married her husband, a Swedish Air Force officer, and moved to Sweden, where she obtained degrees in English, Swedish, Classical Arabic and linguistics. She now teaches Swedish and English in Sweden. An accomplished, exhibited artist, her paintings have been used as the covers for the Bangladeshi, Greek, and U.S. editions of A LIST OF OFFENCES.
Visit her website at www.dilrubazara.com.
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16 comments :
I am so sad and sympathetic to the heroine already. Dying to know what she decides to do and see how her life unfolds!
Such a turn around of her then good life.
It's nice that you include information about the Author. What a fabulous life she now leads.
My daughter loves to read so I am saving this one for her
great review as always :)
Kelli Avery
nice review adding to reading list
Great review and sounds like a good book.
The book sounds very interesting. I find other cultures to be fascinating. Thanks for another great review!
Thanks for the review. I love getting your opinion on books so far you have done good I agree :) I am sure I will with this one too
Okay, now I have to read it to see if she leaves (hope she does!)
this sounds fun, however i would still choose the sci-fi kind of books, thanks for sharing
Wow, another interesting book to read! Love the story...
this book is quite interesting. and the author is from Bangladesh... wow! i have been there.
Now that's intriguing. I wonder what happen to her life.... hmmm , it really depends on her culture and upbringing. This book is a reflection that though this is a fiction, somewhere in this world, a Daria exist and I hope she will find the courage to do what's good for her and her child.
This is a pretty interesting book to read.I love romance novels and I have a small collection of them books, I can also read variety of categories.
Liza Barnett
not what i was expecting from the title, but sounds good nonetheless! i like the cover
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