The Bride (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Bapsi Sidhwa
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1920-1960
- Setting: Pakistan
- Principal Characters: Qasim, Zaitoon, Nikka, Carol, Sakhi
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Wives, Tradition, Sexism, Gender roles, Marriage, 1940’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Rape, Asia or Asians, Oppression, Adoption or adopted children, India or East Indian people, Pakistan or Pakistanis
- Locales: Pakistan
Form and Content
A title such as The Bride at first might suggest a happy story, but it soon becomes evident that it contains an ironic twist. The novel opens with the wedding of the central character, Qasim, and an account of his and his bride’s shared humiliation on their wedding night. He is only ten, and his father has married him to a woman twice his age. The novel records with swift movement his maturation, the developing relationship between husband and wife in spite of their age difference, the deaths of his wife and children, his move from the Himalayan...
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