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Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Divided City Audiobook by Samira Shackle
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 531870
Title: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Divided City
Author: Samira Shackle
Narrator: Amina Zia
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:37:23
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Asia, Travel, Social Science
Summary:
Karachi. Pakistans largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people, twice the size of New York City. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It takes an insider to know where is safe, whom to trust, and what makes Karachi tick.In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mothers birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Among them is Safdar, the ambulance driver who knows the citys streets and shortcuts intimately and will stop at nothing to help his fellow citizens. There is Parveen, the activist whose outspoken views on injustice repeatedly lead her towards danger. And there is Zille, the hardened journalist whose commitment to getting the best scoops puts him at increasing risk.Their individual experiences unfold and converge as Shackle tells the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade as it endures a terrifying crime wave: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to its residents daily perils and pushing the city into international spotlight.Writing with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful and dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 531870
Title: Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Divided City
Author: Samira Shackle
Narrator: Amina Zia
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:37:23
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Asia, Travel, Social Science
Summary:
Karachi. Pakistans largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people, twice the size of New York City. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It takes an insider to know where is safe, whom to trust, and what makes Karachi tick.In this powerful debut, Samira Shackle explores the city of her mothers birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites. Among them is Safdar, the ambulance driver who knows the citys streets and shortcuts intimately and will stop at nothing to help his fellow citizens. There is Parveen, the activist whose outspoken views on injustice repeatedly lead her towards danger. And there is Zille, the hardened journalist whose commitment to getting the best scoops puts him at increasing risk.Their individual experiences unfold and converge as Shackle tells the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade as it endures a terrifying crime wave: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to its residents daily perils and pushing the city into international spotlight.Writing with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, Shackle paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and compelling cities in the world, a city where the borders blur between politicians and gangsters and between lawful and unlawful and dangerous new forces of violent extremism are pitted against old networks of power.
Contact: [email protected]