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Breaking barriers : a love story of a Pushtun boy and an American girl set against the backdrop of the event 9/11 / by Ghayur Ayub.
Van Pelt Library PR9540.9.A95 B74 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayub, Ghayur.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 365 pages ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Islamabad : PanGraphics.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2008?]
- Summary:
- Brief Synopsis Zahid Khan is a powerful Pushtun tribal chief who befriends Osama bin Laden, while his teenage son, Batoor falls in love with his class fellow, Jessica - the daughter of the American Ambassador to Pakistan. Gradually she grows to return his feelings and falls in love with him after he nearly loses his life to save her in a terrorist attack organized by Alqaeda. The cultural barriers and political realities after 9/11 separate them, pushing them to the brink of insanity where they try taking their own lives. Do they succeed as Romeo and Juliet did?
- Notes:
- "Reads like a post 9/11 Romeo & Juliet"--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 9789699192005
- 9699192003
- 1425102549
- 9781425102548
- 1425902723
- 9781425902728
- OCLC:
- 227329340
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