{"product_id":"lifting-the-veil","title":"LIFTING THE VEIL","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLifting the Veil \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWickedly funny and unflinchingly honest, \u003ci\u003eLifting the Veil \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives' \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67781571379236,"sku":null,"price":2695.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/LIFTINGTHEVEIL.webp?v=1792566785","url":"https:\/\/vanguardbooks.com\/products\/lifting-the-veil","provider":"Vanguard Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}