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Title: Silk Tether
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Minal Khan
Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-22-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
This is the real world of modern Karachi as seen through the eyes of a young woman in an elite family. Here are the hidden dramatic realities of the upper class, the undertow of religion, revealing the truth sometimes spoken in hushed whispers, more often swept away by the flourish of silk saris at extravagant dinner parties...or perhaps never mentioned at all.
Often tragic, always youthful, yet never what those in the West expect, here in fully realized first-person prose are the lives of Ayla, the protagonist, and her boundaries and customs, as well as those of her friends: Alia, oppressed by her wealthy, overly conservative parents, and Tanzeela, a teenager trapped in an abusive arranged marriage. From silk saris to bombings; from fundamentalism to American sympathy; from Dior makeup to desperate poverty; from sexual abuse to religious taboos, the world of Ayla, in her late teens, struggling in the real world of modern-day Pakistan, is anything but simple.
Silk Tether is a revealing, truthful, poignant novel destined to become a must-listen by westerners seeking to understand the complex world of Islamic fundamentalist countries.
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Members Reviews:
A young woman's struggle for her independence in Pakistan
Minal Khanâs âSilk Tetherâ has all the excitement of suddenly entering another world, the reader immersed in it just like a native. At the same time the narrator sees events with the objectivity of cultural knowledge and her own close experience. Minal Khan does this by what might be called a magic trick: she effortlessly enters the minds and skins of people very different from each other. In her novel âSilk Tetherâ she deftly selects characters, most all of them Karachi-Pakistani, who are of different ages and at different stages in their lives.
The book begins dramatically with a young woman stepping forward to the passport control of New Yorkâs international airport. She is only nineteen years old, struggling with enormous anxiety. Thoughts fly through her head, she imagines all the bad things that might happen to her: she has a Pakistani passport, a real US visa, and a letter of acceptance to Cornell University. She is called aside to a special interrogation room. Does she know a certain Mohammed Khalid Shiek? It is the name of her uncle. However it is very close to the name of a planner of the 9/11 attack. But it is a common name in Pakistan. The interrogation takes hours, the official is strict but turns out to be friendly. âI looked at him blankly. He looked back, apologetic. âHow about some Starbucks?ââ Before too long she is on her way.
After the introduction the narration backtracks several years to a point when the girl, Ayla, is two years younger. She is spirited and lively, completely inexperienced, and attends her first wedding.