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This House of Clay and Water
by Faiqa Mansab
This house of clay and water.
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I started reading this book on the 31st and finished just a while ago. This has left me emotionally drained. I had heard good reviews about this book but I never knew it would affect me so significantly.
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This book talks about four protagonists - Nida, Bhanggi, Sasha and Zoya, all of them surviving in Lahore. Yes, not living but just surviving. Inspite of being an highly educated woman, Nida is confined to a loveless marriage and has to suffer the loss of her ill child. She finds her escape in Bhanggi. Bhanggi, born as a Hijra, lives his life in agony and is often trampled down by others. He finds his release in Nida.
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Sasha is bored of her married life and seeks solace in random men. She neglects her daughter Zoya who is just twelve years old and has to face the consequences later. Zoya, unable to get attention from her parents, starts seeking love from the housemaids only to realise that she's being molested and ends up pregnant. What follows is the lives of these four ordinary people who try to break shackles around them. The plot is fantastic and is extremely touching.
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It's impossible to conjure up romance between a woman and a Hijra but the author has pulled it off by sheer elegance. She has portrayed the true sense of loss, inequality, betrayal, patriarchal system, heartbreaks and also survival. This house of clay and water is not just a story but is a beautiful prose that keeps you afloat as you begin to read.
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I would rate this book 5/5.
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I started reading this book on the 31st and finished just a while ago. This has left me emotionally drained. I had heard good reviews about this book but I never knew it would affect me so significantly.
✨
This book talks about four protagonists - Nida, Bhanggi, Sasha and Zoya, all of them surviving in Lahore. Yes, not living but just surviving. Inspite of being an highly educated woman, Nida is confined to a loveless marriage and has to suffer the loss of her ill child. She finds her escape in Bhanggi. Bhanggi, born as a Hijra, lives his life in agony and is often trampled down by others. He finds his release in Nida.
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Sasha is bored of her married life and seeks solace in random men. She neglects her daughter Zoya who is just twelve years old and has to face the consequences later. Zoya, unable to get attention from her parents, starts seeking love from the housemaids only to realise that she's being molested and ends up pregnant. What follows is the lives of these four ordinary people who try to break shackles around them. The plot is fantastic and is extremely touching.
✨
It's impossible to conjure up romance between a woman and a Hijra but the author has pulled it off by sheer elegance. She has portrayed the true sense of loss, inequality, betrayal, patriarchal system, heartbreaks and also survival. This house of clay and water is not just a story but is a beautiful prose that keeps you afloat as you begin to read.
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I would rate this book 5/5.