Shame
In a country that is not quite Pakistan, a playboy turned populist prime minister and the pious general who serves him climb over each other for power, while the women of both households are kept inside a great sealed house. Sufiya Zinobia, the damaged daughter who blushes for everyone else's disgrace, absorbs the shame nobody in the country will carry and begins to turn it outward. Rushdie's Pakistan book, transparently modelled on Bhutto and Zia.
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