Not a Fairytale

Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book Not a Fairytale by Shaida Ali Kazie, Random House Struik
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Author: Shaida Ali Kazie ISBN: 9781415202814
Publisher: Random House Struik Publication: March 28, 2011
Imprint: Umuzi (Random House Struik) Language: English
Author: Shaida Ali Kazie
ISBN: 9781415202814
Publisher: Random House Struik
Publication: March 28, 2011
Imprint: Umuzi (Random House Struik)
Language: English

Salena, the elder of two Cape sisters, is light-skinned and demure, an easy one to marry off to a husband of her parents’ choosing. Zuhra is dark and wilful, refusing tradition and leaving the country in pursuit of her own destiny. 'The shoots of their lives grow apart and interlace again. Salena finds herself in a repressed marriage much like her mother’s. Zuhra comes to suspect grim undercurrents to both their lives, which she expresses by retelling familiar fairytales, often hilariously, in a Muslim framework. 'But this is not a fairytale. The dark forest is real, and so are its secrets.

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Salena, the elder of two Cape sisters, is light-skinned and demure, an easy one to marry off to a husband of her parents’ choosing. Zuhra is dark and wilful, refusing tradition and leaving the country in pursuit of her own destiny. 'The shoots of their lives grow apart and interlace again. Salena finds herself in a repressed marriage much like her mother’s. Zuhra comes to suspect grim undercurrents to both their lives, which she expresses by retelling familiar fairytales, often hilariously, in a Muslim framework. 'But this is not a fairytale. The dark forest is real, and so are its secrets.

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