Description
| Product ID: | 9780143334149 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rasha |
| Subtitle: | Little Girl, Big Heart |
| Authors: | Author: Muhammed Zafar Iqbal |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The breathtaking story of a feisty young girlFifteen-year-old Rasha is abandoned by her mother in a village with her aged-and probably mad-grandmother. Uprooted from her school and her friends back in cosmopolitan Dhaka, a disgruntled Rasha has to start life afresh in a faraway place with no electricity, incessant rains, nosy neighbours and a primitive school. Refusing to resign to the circumstances, Rasha rises against them and turns indomitable. Exposing a bullying teacher, nipping a child marriage in the bud, learning to take a boat to school and teaching her classmates how to use computers-these are only a few of this young girl's incredible exploits!But just as Rasha settles into her new life, new friends in tow, she is confronted by a nightmarish past that once ravaged her family. Will Rasha survive this daunting, and astounding, adventure? |
| Imprint Name: | Puffin |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Random House India |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-08-01 |
