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Farida Jehangir Manekshah
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She Refused to Bow Kindle Edition

by Farida Manekshah (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A whiff of the supernatural runs through this personal memoir. The message which comes to you in a dream. The presence you feel as you pray at a grave. This vision you see as you peer through the window of your cabin. A sadhu's warning. A well which dried up. A seance. An ancient religion. A jinni. The story begins in the troubled years following the 1947 partition of India and the creation of the new state of Pakistan, when a jobbing photographer used the money he had accumulated to buy a palace. But it all came tumbling down with the drowning of, Beheram, a champion swimmer, in the waters of Hawkesbay. The story then moves to the teddy boy London of the 1950's and to a young woman's marriage to a violent man, in her desperation to escape a controlling family and live her own life.
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  1. Print length
    241 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    November 12, 2023
  5. Reading age
    16 - 18 years
  6. File size
    2917 KB
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Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CN6KD6VC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bruce & Holly (November 12, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2917 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 241 pages

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Farida Jehangir Manekshah

Farida Jehangir Manekshah

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I was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1945 as one of 12 siblings to a rich Parsee family. My father, Jehangir, was a successful portrait photographer and in the unrest and movement of populations that followed the British withdrawal from India, he used his wealth to buy a palace at Gooru Mandir, Karachi, in the new State of Pakistan. Following the death of my elder brother Beheram on the beaches of Hawkesbay, we moved as a family to West London, which is where I have lived since 1957. I currently live in Hounslow, where I am settled. I am obsessive about animals - both wild and domestic - and have three cats, Taboo, Poppy and Princess Pinky. I live with my partner, Charles.

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