The bargain from the bazaar : a family's day of reckoning in Lahore

Author / Creator

Ullah, Haroon, author

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Summary

Awais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar?the largest open market in South Asia?whose labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music.But Anarkali's exuberant...

Awais Reza is a shopkeeper in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar?the largest open market in South Asia?whose labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music.But Anarkali's exuberant hubbub cannot conceal the fact that Pakistan is a country at the edge of a precipice. In recent years, the easy sociability that had once made up this vibrant community has been replaced with doubt and fear. Old-timers like Awais, who inherited his shop from his father and hopes one day to pass it on to his son, are being shouldered aside by easy money, discount stores, heroin peddlers,

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