The bargain from the bazaar : a family's day of reckoning in Lahore / Haroon K. Ullah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ullah, Haroon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reza, Awais, 1947-.

Reza, Awais.

Reza, Awais, 1947---Family.

Middle class families--Pakistan--Lahore--Biography.

Middle class families.

Merchants--Pakistan--Lahore--Biography.

Merchants.

Lahore (Pakistan)--Biography.

Lahore (Pakistan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Awais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar?the largest open market in South Asia?whose labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music.But Anarkali's exuberant hubbub cannot conceal the fact that Pakistan is a country at the edge of a precipice. In recent years, the easy sociability that had once made up this vibrant community has been replaced with doubt and fear. Old-timers like Awais, who inherited his shop from his father and hopes one day to pass it on to his son, are being shouldered aside by easy money, discount stores, heroin peddlers,

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Dedictation; Author's Note; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty-One; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61039-167-5