{"product_id":"vampire-paperback","title":"Vampire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMirza Azeem Baig Chughtai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unnamed narrator in Azeem Baig Chughtai's Vampire-written as a letter to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGod-is a 16-year-old girl who has just had her nikah ceremony. She dreams of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea life of happiness with a loving, handsome husband-whose face, however, she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill only see at her rukhsati, when she finally leaves her parents' home for her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emarital home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, tragedy befalls her. Separated from her family on the journey to her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecousin's wedding in a neighbouring town, she finds herself stranded at the railway\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estation. She has no other recourse but to spend the night at the station master's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehouse, discovering too late that the only other occupant is his male guest. In the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espace of a night, her life is changed forever; she loses her 'honour' and faces the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eterrifying prospect of being shunned by her family, in-laws and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her letter to God, she pours out her grief and terror, her conflicting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemotions of denial and acceptance of the events of that night, until she reaches a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econclusion. The decision she makes when she finally comes face to face with her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehusband, leaves the reader both shocked and disturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brother and literary mentor of the legendary Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAzeem Baig was an iconoclast and a feminist who did not hesitate to break\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eboundaries. Nowhere is this more evident than in Vampire. Long before terms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike 'rape syndrome' and 'secondary rape' were coined, Chughtai dared to write\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout the unmentionable subject of rape in Muslim society-from the female\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evictim's perspective. What makes the novel unique and amazingly relevant is that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis story, set in 1930s' India, could well be happening in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlawlessly translated by his grand-daughter, Zoovia Hamiduddin, this is the first\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Azeem Baig Chughtai's works to be translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47258905084153,"sku":"9789354477591","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/8a12QQgJ7t9789354477591.webp?v=1768764624","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/vampire-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}