Shabanu, you are as wild as the wind. You must learn to obey.
Shabanu lives with her family in Pakistan's Cholistan Desert, in a society that denies women any form of independence. At twelve years old, Shabanu is already betrothed, while her sister Phulan, a year older, is about to be married. Then tragedy strikes and Shabanu is faced with a decision that will change her life for ever - she must choose between the strength of her own dreams of freedom and her obligation to her family and culture...
- ISBN10 0744520673
- ISBN13 9780744520675
- Publish Date 28 November 1991 (first published 29 March 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 November 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English