Tahmina Begum: Womanhood, Gebunden
Womanhood
- A Love Letter to South Asian Muslim Women
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- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Co, 11/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781398718340
- Volume:
- 272 Pages
- Release date:
- 5.11.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 15.94* |
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Blurb
Why do we, as South Asian Muslim women, make the choices we do?
In Womanhood, Tahmina Begum intimately traces the lives of three women across eight years - each living at a crossroads, each shaped by the contradictions and richness of their heritage, each weighing the cost of being a good woman .
Noor longs for a marriage that mirrors the loyalty of her parents' world and the openness of her own. After a long negotiation between her heart and faith, she has decided to leave the man who is perfect in all ways but one.
Khaira , once the girl in bedazzled jeans and heeled sandals, is twenty years into a life she built at great cost. Expectations written long before her birth have shaped her into someone she no longer recognises.
Moumita strives to be a modern independent woman, even as tradition tugs at her. When a beloved friendship fractures, she begins to ask whether independence is freedom - or another kind of sacrifice.
Together their stories reveal what it means to be a woman today, that love demands courage, and that the most essential journey we take is always the one back to ourselves.