The Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore

by Haroon K. Ullah

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610391667
• ISBN13: 9781610391665
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"