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Publisher's Summary
In 1968, a naive 19 year old Midwestern girl marries an older Pakistani man and moves to Lahore where she lives as a Muslim wife for almost two years. She did not realize that her new husband married her to gain American citizenship and return to the United States. Her life in Pakistan is adventure-filled: shopping bazaars, dancing girls, an Islamic red light district, historical Moghul architecture, and social turmoil. Over time these Pakistani experiences reveal how Muslims control and mistreat their women.
The danger of fanatic Shiite religious practices and exciting travel are all balanced with her status as a blond American woman in a foreign land at the mercy of her Muslim husband. This true story unveils an informed observation of Muslim women's status in Pakistani society. The Punjabi's Wife is a book that asserts itself as a true American odyssey, a brave young woman's adventure story and lessons for western women contemplating relationships with Muslim men.
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- Pauline
- 09-10-13
Interesting story, distracting narration
Would you try another book from Lara Lyons and/or Catherine O'Brien?
no
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Although not much of the cultural experiences are new now (I believe this marriage took place in the 1970s) it's still interesting as an autobiography of a mid-western girl who experiences a culture that is foreign to her.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Catherine O'Brien?
I'm not familiar with narrators, but for starters it seems a mistake to have cast someone with a British(?) accent. It was really distracting to keep hearing her refer to her hometown and background with the ill-fitting accent. I feel that she should have tried for an American accent, or that someone else should have been cast.
Also,this isn't the narrator's fault but did no one edit this thing? As the other reviewer mentions, at a certain point early on we begin hearing coughs, throat clearing, weird clicks and maybe tapping on the microphone. Of course that was annoying but also rather jarring. I'm not crazy about unexpected loud noises in my ears, and from that point forward it's been hard to relax and enjoy the book.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Well, it was a little interesting. I got it because I'm normally interested in other countries and cultures, and I was disappointed on that level, but as a personal story of one woman's experience it was OK. Can't really recommend, unless it was offered for a couple of dollars or something.
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- Cabriales
- 09-05-13
The Narration is Terrible!!!!
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
If you are someone who can get past the narrator, then this book may be okay for you. I never could get past it to focus on the content.
Has The Punjabi's Wife turned you off from other books in this genre?
no.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
First of all, she has an accent (possibly British?), but this is an autobiography and as far as I could tell the author is American. That was distracting. Second, her reading is very flat. Third, you can hear her swallowing throughout, which I think a little gross. Fourth, about the 4th chapter she starts coughing and making reading errors that clearly should have been edited out. It's extremely unprofessional. That's when I had to stop listening. So maybe the book is terrific, but I'll never know.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
anger.
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Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, 21-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different, but both are beautiful, modern, and carefree...until the day their father tells them he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.
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Touching, sad, and enjoyable
- By Beach Biker on 07-15-09
By: Lisa See
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Infidel
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This New York Times best-seller is the astonishing life story of award-winning humanitarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A deeply respected advocate for free speech and women's rights, Hirsi Ali also lives under armed protection because of her outspoken criticism of the Islamic faith in which she was raised.
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Tough, Candid Assessment
- By Paul Mullen on 02-18-08
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Between Two Worlds
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
- By: Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Zainab Salbi was 11-years-old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle". She watched as Saddam pitted friends, spouses, and even children against each other to compete for his approval.
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An excellent history lesson
- By Ella on 12-01-09
By: Zainab Salbi, and others
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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
- By: Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
- Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. Her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town of Piotrko´w Trybunalski.
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Amazing
- By Nordic Artisan on 07-09-18
By: Planaria Price, and others
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- A Story of War and What Comes After
- By: Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her 15-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety - perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.
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Narrator detracts from story
- By Laura on 01-16-19
By: Clemantine Wamariya, and others
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Glad Farm
- A Memoir
- By: Catherine Marenghi
- Narrated by: Catherine Marenghi
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Catherine Marenghi begins her life in poverty and isolation. She leaves home at the age of 17. A decade later, she is a successful journalist with the means to buy her family their first decent house. But the past will not be put to rest so easily. Catherine unravels a web of long-buried family secrets, and a terrible betrayal that robbed her family of the home that was rightfully theirs. And she finally uncovers the story her parents never shared: the gladiolus farm that was once their dream.
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Pity party from start to finish.
- By Maureen on 02-06-23
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Funny in Farsi
- A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
- By: Firoozeh Dumas
- Narrated by: Firoozeh Dumas
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here.
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The melting pot, next generation
- By Jerry on 02-15-08
By: Firoozeh Dumas
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36 Views of Mount Fuji
- On Finding Myself in Japan
- By: Cathy Davidson
- Narrated by: Alexandra Bailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan.
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Loved everything about this book!
- By Kandice on 05-10-16
By: Cathy Davidson
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Threading My Prayer Rug
- One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
- By: Sabeeha Rehman
- Narrated by: Sabeeha Rehman
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning with a sweetly funny, moving account of her arranged marriage, the author undercuts stereotypes and offers the refreshing view of an American life through Muslim eyes. In chapters leavened with humor, hope, and insight, she recounts an immigrant's daily struggles balancing assimilation with preserving heritage, overcoming religious barriers from within and distortions of Islam from without, and confronting issues of raising her children as Muslims - while they lobby for a Christmas tree!
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Wonderful story, ok production for audio
- By Sarah on 09-05-19
By: Sabeeha Rehman
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Mao's Last Dancer
- By: Li Cunxin
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story of how one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars, and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West.
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Life in perspective
- By PSprout on 01-29-06
By: Li Cunxin
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I Should Have Honor
- A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
- By: Khalida Brohi
- Narrated by: Khalida Brohi
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was forced to marry a 13-year-old boy when she was only nine; Khalida herself was promised as a bride before she was even born. But her father refused to let her become a child bride. He was a man who believed in education, including for his daughters, and Khalida grew up thinking she would become the first female doctor in her village. Khalida thought her life was proceeding on an unusual track for a woman of her circumstances, but one whose path was orderly and straightforward.
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Touching
- By Stephanie on 10-08-18
By: Khalida Brohi
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Daring to Drive
- A Saudi Woman's Awakening
- By: Manal al-Sharif
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.
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The rain begins with a single drop
- By Sara on 07-01-17
By: Manal al-Sharif
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The Sleeping Dictionary
- By: Sujata Massey
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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The term "sleeping dictionary" was coined for young Indian women who slept with British men and educated them in the ways of India. Set between 1925 and the end of World War II, The Sleeping Dictionary is the story of Kamala, born to a peasant family in West Bengal, who makes her way to Calcutta of the 1930s. Haunted by a forbidden love, she is caught between the raging independence movement and the British colonial society she finds herself inhabiting.
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Overly ambitious
- By S. Harris on 08-31-18
By: Sujata Massey