Audiobook11 hours
Those Children
Written by Shahbano Bilgrami
Narrated by Heeba Shah
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
When ten-year-old Ferzana Mahmud and her three older siblings lose their mother to cancer, everything changes. Their heartbroken father moves them from their familiar Chicago suburb to a city thousands of miles away in his native Pakistan. To help them adjust to life in Karachi and to the eccentricities of their extended clan, Ferzana, Fatima, Raza, and Jamila escape into a fantasy world of their own making. As superhuman creatures with incredible powers, they investigate the members of their grandfather's household. In the process, they discover astonishing facts not only about the Mahmuds but also about the nature of family, love, and loss in the troubled yet beguiling city that is now their home. Told from the perspective of an adult Ferzana reflecting over that fateful year, we see Karachi through the impressionable eyes of a ten-year-old child as she negotiates everything from religious schism and genealogy to patriotism and puberty. Ferzana's love of sleuthing helps her to piece together her family's complicated history, a history that brings with it the promise of hope and redemption. ©HarperCollins India 2018
Author
Shahbano Bilgrami
Shahbano Bilgrami is a published poet, children's book author, and freelance editor whose debut novel, Without Dreams, was long listed for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband and three daughters.
Related to Those Children
Related audiobooks
The Girl Who Couldn't Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiwali In Muzaffarnagar Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Still Point of the Turning World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Broken Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tiffin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gul Gulshan Gulfam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe People Next Door Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRazia And The Pesky Presents Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvisible People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGulab Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Melodramatists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWindhorse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Second Coming Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShah Jahan And The Ruby Robber Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPatrician Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhere India Goes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSon of the Thundercloud Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishnaji : Tales from India's Maoist Movement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe One Who Swam With The Fishes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDescent Into Night Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAkbar And The Tricky Traitor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnam in a Nightie: Stories from a Kerala Quarantine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMahaparbat: Ek Kahani Hamare Daur Ki Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Henrietta Temple Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMad Country: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hands of Women Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mogul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Mist and Fury Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Court of Thorns and Roses Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Omens: A Full Cast Production Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Court of Wings and Ruin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Frost and Starlight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Neverwhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Gods [TV Tie-In]: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Duke and I Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Two Towers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Those Children
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews