(ENGLISH) MUSLIM NOVEL UZMA JALALUDDIN AYESHA AT LAST AND HANA KHAN CARRIES ON

Title: AYESHA AT LAST

Author: UZMA JALALUDDIN

Language: English

Size: 148 x 210 mm

Pages: 296

Paper: Bookpaper 57gr

Cover: Softcover

AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn\'t want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to someone who looks down on her choices and dresses like he belongs in the seventh century.

When a surprise engagement between Khalid and Hafsa is announced, Ayesha is torn between how she feels about the straightforward Khalid and his family; and the truth she realizes about herself. But Khalid is also wrestling with what he believes and what he wants. And he just can\'t...

Title: HANA KHAN CARRIES ON

Author: UZMA JALALUDDIN

Language: English

Size: 148 x 210 mm

Pages: 288

Paper: Bookpaper 57gr

Cover: Softcover

Seller Note:

- Book/s are non-original copy, but printed well and proportionately.

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When her mysterious aunt and her teenage cousin arrive from India for a surprise visit, they draw Hana into a long-buried family secret. A hate-motivated attack on their neighbourhood...