Sunlight on a broken column / Attia Hosain.

[New] edition / introduced by Kamila Shamsie.

London : Virago Press, 2021.

xv, 366 pages ; 20 cm.

Virago modern classics ; 295.

Laila, orphaned daughter of a distinguished Muslim family, is brought up in her grandfather's traditional household by her aunts, who keep purdah. At fifteen she moves to the home of her 'liberal' but autocratic uncle in Lucknow. As the struggle for Independence sharpens, Laila is surrounded by relatives and university friends caught up in politics, but she is unable to commit herself to any cause: her own fight for independence is a struggle against tradition.

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