{"product_id":"9780241346433","title":"Lifting the Veil : With an Introduction by Kamila Shamsie (Penguin Women Writers)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern' Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018, from the introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories celebrate life in all its complexities: from a woman who refuses marriage to a man she loves to preserve her freedom, to a Hindu and a Muslim teenager pulled apart by societal pressures, to eye-opening personal accounts of the charges of obscenity the author faced in court for stories found in this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWickedly funny and unflinchingly honest, Lifting the Veil explores the power of female sexuality while slyly mocking the subtle tyrannies of middle-class life. In 1940s India, an unlikely setting for female rebellion, Ismat Chughtai was a rare and radical storyteller born years ahead of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives' Huffington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52301677363511,"sku":"EB_LI0705_A17-01_KL","price":131.93,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780241346433-1.jpg?v=1783099985","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780241346433","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}